The SETI@Home distcomp project has borne fruit: 150+ signals that match SETI’s criteria for probable alien intelligence have been identified, and the project is going back to the Arecibo radio-telescope-array to take a closer look at them.
“This is the culmination of more than three years of computing, the largest computation ever done,” said UC Berkeley computer scientist David Anderson, director of SETI@home. “It’s a milestone for the SETI@home project.”
SETI@home users should find out the results of the re-observations – what The Planetary Society, the founding and principal sponsor of SETI@home, is billing as the “stellar countdown” – within two to three months.
Though excited at the opportunity to re-observe as many as 150 candidate signals, Anderson is cautious about raising people’s expectations that they will discover a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization.
(via Robot Wisdom)