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Seti@Home needs help they need $750,000 just to be running for 1 year.
Seti@Home needs help they need $750,000 just to be running for 1 year.
Ivan Seeking said:SETI was begun when it was realized that to some reasonable limit, we could detect us - at that point it made sense to look for other worlds. Nobody is attempting to contact or hide from anyone. SETI seeks to definitively answer the question: Are we alone?
Ivan Seeking said:It is fundamental research which is always difficult to justify, but often the source of the greatest break throughs. And beyond that, if we were to prove the existence of intelligent life elsewhere, it would change humanity forever. This would be one of the greatest, or perhaps even the greatest new truth of all time - a consciousness expanding event much like when we realized that the entire universe doesn't rotate about the earth, which were words to die for at the time.
chroot said:It's a "gimmie." We might as well do it, even though everyone agrees it's probably not going to find anything.
Ivan Seeking said:It is fundamental research which is always difficult to justify, but often the source of the greatest break throughs. And beyond that, if we were to prove the existence of intelligent life elsewhere, it would change humanity forever. This would be one of the greatest, or perhaps even the greatest new truth of all time - a consciousness expanding event much like when we realized that the entire universe doesn't rotate about the earth, which were words to die for at the time.
How do you know if an advance civiltion think it's waste of time to come here?I think it would be better for use to make contact with them first instead of them making contact with us.Curious3141 said:I firmly believe SETI to be a waste of time. If an advanced civilisation wants to contact us, they will find a way. If a really advanced civilisation wants to completely hide their existence, they'll find a way.
SETI is like a geek's home physics project writ large. Money can be better spent on other legitimate scientific ventures (and ...gasp, humanitarian ventures).
I firmly believe SETI to be a waste of time. If an advanced civilisation wants to contact us, they will find a way. If a really advanced civilisation wants to completely hide their existence, they'll find a way.
We should do it patiently though. If we can't afford it, we must wait until we can.
symplectic_manifold said:"So if somebody wants to find us let'm do it" - sounds pretty egoistic and fully indifferent, don't you find??
I think a civilization which doesn't make just a bit of effort to search for anybody of its own kind simply does not deserve to be called "advanced"!
Why? Because so it has already lost its purpose, which is to discover its own nature, try to answer the "simple" question - "Who are we?"
Knowing one's own core is for humans as vital and fundamental as water and breathing. Though it's another level - it has to do with human consciousness and psyche. And in fact our life and progress depends on these most of all!
So in SETI's case even a timid attempt counts.
We will never be able in these terms!
What people do is exactly what you said - they wait until their "material appetite" is gone. But they fully forget that human greediness and a real obsession to posess, more and more, are just insatiable! Values are nowadays not in the right place! They moved to trigger obsessive, wrong capitalism.
I find it a very complex problem. But there has to be done something in our society...immediately! And there is no time to wait because the situation is just worsening!
Here SETI can also come into play and show what the true picture really is!
symplectic_manifold said:The US has enough money but it's in the wrong hands, like in any other country. But it's not the country that matters most. It's the problem of the whole World! WE're off the track, Guys!
As I said the problem is difficult. SETI must obey the "jungle law" - the strongest survives. But it's a pity that the "jungle" rots and almost absolutely ignores that fact! So unfortunately, a different world cannot be built by indifferent people!
Again, one wonders why people don't read up on this stuff first......I think it would be better for use to make contact with them first instead of them making contact with us...
Seti@Home is a distributed computing project that uses internet-connected computers to analyze radio signals from space in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Finacle is a banking software platform used by many financial institutions for core banking processes such as account management, deposits, loans, and payments.
Seti@Home is currently facing issues with the integration of Finacle into their system, causing delays in the processing and analysis of data from the distributed computing project.
This trouble has resulted in delays in the analysis of data, which is crucial for the project's progress in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It has also caused inconvenience for users who have contributed their computing power to the project.
The team at Seti@Home is currently working on finding a solution to the integration issues with Finacle. They are also in communication with the developers of Finacle to resolve any technical issues and ensure a smooth integration. Updates will be provided as progress is made towards resolving the issue.