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  • Has Anyone else received an email by Seti@home for a possible media interview?

    I just received this email from seti@home. Anyone else got it?

    Dear SETI@home participant,


    After nearly four years of searching for extraterrestrial
    intelligence, the SETI@home project will take a closer look at its
    most promising candidate radio sources. The "Stellar Countdown" will
    use Puerto Rico's Arecibo radio telescope on March 18-20, 2003 to
    re-observe up to 150 of the most interesting radio sources found out
    of the billions detected since the distributed computing project
    began in May 1999. For more information, please see
    The Planetary Society is the largest and most effective nonprofit organization that promotes the exploration of space through education, advocacy, and…


    Your computer was one of the ones that processed the data for the
    selected candidate radio sources. There might be interest from the
    media (newspapers, TV, etc) to talk to people whose computers
    processed that data. Local newspapers and TV stations often want to
    include a local angle in their stories and may request to speak to a
    SETI@home participant who lives in their vicinity. They would not be
    looking for technical details -- those are available from the
    SETI@home team. Instead they might ask how you became interested in
    SETI@home, how much time your computer spends processing SETI@home
    data, how long you have been a participant, etc.

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    Are you sure this is authentic, I remember when I was doing seti they said that any anouncement would be made when an et source was found and verified, the user whos pc first detected the signal would have has/her name added as part of the seti team.

    breezer
    Everything I say is true apart from that which is not

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    • #3
      I believe it is authentic. It agrees with the published information of the seti@home website. This is for candidate signals, I highly doubt that they will find anything. Most of the possible ET signals have been re-examined several times and rejected. This is just funfare to end the project.

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      • #4
        I have not received such an email, but I believe it could be genuine - they will be trying to stir up media interest towards the end of the project, as they never had a chance to do it otherwise
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        • #5
          The project is ending? Dang, just started crunching...

          Or are they just considering whether to prolong the project or not?

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          • #6
            What's that have to do with proteins?

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