+hamgran Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 (edited) I've long been interested in this program, "Seti at Home", whereby anyone with a computer and internet access can download radio astronomy data from the site, and their own computer will analyze it for irregularities which may indicate some form of extraterrestrial life. I see geocaching is represented in two of the groups, or clubs, but there are not a lot of members, and only two from Canada. Anyone else interested in participating? - hamgran The first geocaching group: "Geocachers of the World Unite" The second: "Geocaching" Edited June 3, 2005 by hamgran Quote Link to comment
+WxGuesser Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 i've been doing the seti at home program for a few years on and off.. i think i've completed like 150 units... Quote Link to comment
+spud67 Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 I have been doing SETI@home as well and was part of one of the Geocaching groups. My computer crashed this week so i will be out of the loop for SETI@home for a few days while it is being fixed. I think I have about 425 units complete before the machine crashed. That would be the ultimate cache if one of us cachers found ET. I recently loaded the newer search program from SETI@home but haven't used it for very long to say anything good or bad about it. The older search program is the one I have used the longest and never had any problems with it. Quote Link to comment
+Pioneer 'n' Tiff Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Pardon my intrusion but this will confuse ya.. One of us (that would be him) has been an active participant in this for about 4 years. He's listed under the Australian statistics but he still crunches here in San Diego. I think he's up over the 5000 mark. Quote Link to comment
+fizbot Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I'd love to see Geocaching adopt a "certificate" system the same way that SETI does for hitting milestones. This allows each participant to print out nice little personalized certs for themselves after they reach different work milestones (although I can't find the certificates right now since they have re-organized the site). Would be kind of cool for geocaching... Could have 100, 250, 500 + caches found or 100 Virtuals found or ... What's everyone else think? Quote Link to comment
+Tidalflame Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I used to do folding@home (which is like SETI@home, but it tries to analyze protein folding, which will provide some insight into certain diseases and other biological processes), but it's not all that practical on a laptop... it is a cheap way to turn the laptop into a space heater, but that's something I'd rather not do! Quote Link to comment
+Circle of Confusion Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 I signed up to SETI@Home last night. I have competed 5 unit so far, but don't have any credits yet?!? How does the Credit thing work? I also joined Geocaches of the world unite. I joined the Canada team first, but I think I prefer the smaller group instead. Quote Link to comment
+hamgran Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 Hi, Circle! It updates itself every few days; you'll see your numbers on the page soon. Awesome that you joined! - hamgran Quote Link to comment
+Circle of Confusion Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 (edited) How do credits and units relate? I have been counting the units by reading the message logs. Now I see I have 28.27 credits. Does the BIONIC program readily show how many units I have done? (edit: Update 47.84 credits) Edited June 17, 2005 by Circle of Confusion Quote Link to comment
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