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They discovered that the scientist had converted his living room into a monitoring station for extra-terrestrial life: Six powerful computers were running a pro
by dschobel 17y ago
They discovered that the scientist had converted his living room into a monitoring station for extra-terrestrial life: Six powerful computers were running a program that analyzed radio signals from outer space.
If that's SETI @ Home (as I believe) then in addition to being a "monitoring station for extra-terrestrial life", my living room is also a cryptography lab (PrimeGrid) and a quantum computing and AI laboratory (AQUA@home).
Who knew!
- JacobAldridge 17y agoI guessed it was most likely SETI as well, so hardly another brick in the wall of mental illness. Applying my (ex) journalist nous to the story, however, I think it was only included so they could run this quote in full (my italics) later in the story: "In her mind, he was perfect," Cox said. "She's tapped out. He has lots of money. He doesn't know anybody. He lives behind closed doors. He's trying to communicate with ET. Who would miss him?"