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Did SETI@home accomplish anything useful with its 21 years of computing? Outside of the general "it's always good to do science, even with negative results" whi
by CriticalCathed 7y ago
Did SETI@home accomplish anything useful with its 21 years of computing? Outside of the general "it's always good to do science, even with negative results" which I agree with.
I ran a large cluster of university machines surreptitiously for this project many years ago.
- mavhc 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHGb02%2B14a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHGb02%2B14a
- mekster 7y agoSo, is this all they did in 21 years? Funny people don't criticize it for wasting electricity when people complain about how Bitcoin wastes so much which seems like a far more practical utility than SETI.