Can You Hear Me Now?

Inspired by of all things, a WordPress plug-in, I have resumed my search for intelligent life in outer space. I reinstalled the BOINC software again, and have attached myself to the SETI@Home project again.

As a rule my PC sits here running 24/7 and although my wife thinks its more, I spent about 4 hours in front of it each day. The other 20 hours it idles, except for a few milliseconds when it checks for new SPAM every half hour. I have a love hate relationship with the SETI@Home project. I love the whole ide of it, but hate the fact that I always seem to have trouble reliably connecting to their servers to keep me in work units. (As is the case right now after rejoining 3/27/2007 10:02:59 PM||Access to reference site succeeded – project servers may be temporarily down.)

So as to not waste my previously wasted CPU cycles I also signed up to help out with Climateprediction.net which is trying to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century and Rosetta@home which is trying to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins.

Anyway, my SETI@Home credit stands right now at 68,853.20. If I ever get connected, download some work and crunch some numbers, that total will go up and you will be able to follow the progress, along with everyone else, over there in the sidebar. Of course if I do discover a signal from intelligent life on another planet, I’ll probably blog about it here.

And it goes without saying that if I ever discover a WordPress plug-in that monitors the search for intelligent life on this planet I’ll add it to the sidebar as well.