Ok, but I have never noticed this division of labour going on before...
I have 4 projects attached, and they are all set to equal shares. Because of the whole business with the video card, I have not been running BOINC at all for probably a couple of months, so it isn't like one project has been hogging things.
I currently have no work units at all for SETI, yet it won't download any, saying it is not a priority.
I used to have 20 or 30 work units lined up all the time. Have they changed the way they are doing things over the past few months?
I dropped SETI out earlier this year because after I got my new desktop-PC and installed Boinc, all SETI WU's would end up with a computation error so I was frustrated ... and now I even think that the possible ET's out there don't send radiowaves any more, or the period any civilization uses radio waves is very short, so it might be pointless to go thru all these signals ...
and what do we do if we got an alien signal? We'll panic of course :D
it's better to concentrate on our own technology level and get some security before we even try to contact other civilizations.
I dropped SETI out earlier this year because after I got my new desktop-PC and installed Boinc, all SETI WU's would end up with a computation error so I was frustrated ... and now I even think that the possible ET's out there don't send radiowaves any more, or the period any civilization uses radio waves is very short, so it might be pointless to go thru all these signals ...
and what do we do if we got an alien signal? We'll panic of course :D
it's better to concentrate on our own technology level and get some security before we even try to contact other civilizations.
All of that, plus the distance SETI can hear reasonably-powered signals seems to be about 100 light-years from what I can find out about it, which is too small a region to expect to find an intelligent civilization that can communicate at a level we can understand.
For comparison, what would we say to the Neanderthals of 100,000 years ago? Not much that is of use to either of us I think.
Ok, but I have never noticed
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Ok, but I have never noticed this division of labour going on before...
I have 4 projects attached, and they are all set to equal shares. Because of the whole business with the video card, I have not been running BOINC at all for probably a couple of months, so it isn't like one project has been hogging things.
I currently have no work units at all for SETI, yet it won't download any, saying it is not a priority.
I used to have 20 or 30 work units lined up all the time. Have they changed the way they are doing things over the past few months?
Phil.
I dropped SETI out earlier
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I dropped SETI out earlier this year because after I got my new desktop-PC and installed Boinc, all SETI WU's would end up with a computation error so I was frustrated ... and now I even think that the possible ET's out there don't send radiowaves any more, or the period any civilization uses radio waves is very short, so it might be pointless to go thru all these signals ...
and what do we do if we got an alien signal? We'll panic of course :D
it's better to concentrate on our own technology level and get some security before we even try to contact other civilizations.
RE: I dropped SETI out
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All of that, plus the distance SETI can hear reasonably-powered signals seems to be about 100 light-years from what I can find out about it, which is too small a region to expect to find an intelligent civilization that can communicate at a level we can understand.
For comparison, what would we say to the Neanderthals of 100,000 years ago? Not much that is of use to either of us I think.