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If you're this salty about SETI being a waste Of computing cycles, wait till you learn about bitcoin.

• unsupp0rted 3y ago
  It's weird people keep comparing this to Bitcoin. That's like "Oh our best & brightest sunk years and billions into a known-bad type of Alzheimers research? Wait till you hear about Pets.com"
  • sgift 3y ago
    "known-bad" ... defined by you? Cause if the best & brightest did it (in this case SETI@Home) it seems they disagree with that categorization.
  • redundantly 3y ago
    Well, one used maybe tens or hundreds of megawatt hours over the course of a year, while the other uses tens or hundreds of terawatt hours per year. One was a launching platform for dozens of scientific and other large scale volunteer computing projects, and the other's value is entirely based in speculation.