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SETI@Home

SETI is the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, it is the extension of man's question echoing from our primordial existence... "Is there anybody out there?" The modern SETI era extends back to about 1960 and today "visionaries" from Sun, Intel, Microsoft and Disney's Imagineering pop up all over SETI's documents. All told, geeks and not government are keeping the search for aliens alive.

SETI@Home is a project involving massively-parallel computation on desktop computers scattered around the world. Individuals download a continually-improving screensaver or text-based program that performs sophisticated analysis of SETI data. SETI@Home piggybacks its receiver under one of the 305-meter diameter Arecibo radio telescope's multiple focal points. The group extracts a limited frequency band of the signal, samples it, and writes it to a digital tape. The data on these tapes are broken up into smaller chunks which are in turn sent out to over two million participants. Since the beginning of the project, volunteers have donated almost half a million years of computing time. SETI@Home has uniquely involved the public in a real scientific project in an era when the public's support of science is wavering.

Team AnandTech has been with SETI@Home since its beginning in May 1999, and is currently in 15th place among all SETI club teams throughout the world, having donated nearly 400 years worth of CPU time. AnandTech embodies a technological world that was once considered science fiction (global information networks! Virtual worlds and avatars! Computers that can beat human grand masters at chess!), the natural next step is to ponder an even further-flung future -- alien technology, intergalactic transmissions, matching pairs of socks coming out of the dryer... and the small-but-captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth once you join Team AnandTech in the SETI@Home challenge.

So, put your Thunderbird, Pentium 3, or even your lowly Cyrix to work, because every little bit helps! You will be helping Team Anandtech, yourself, and quite possibly mankind in general. With your help, the Team will not only prove that Anandtech is the site for forward-thinking people like yourself, but that by using the power of technology, that its readers can help the world and have some fun while doing it. =)

Click Here to find out how to Join Team AnandTech's SETI@Home Team

If you're up to the challenge, please stop on by http://www.teamanandtech.com/faqs/ and see how to help out Team Anandtech. Every little bit counts!

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