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To be fair, SETI@Home has delivered most consistent results.

• yread 14y ago
  you mean "nothing" ?
  • wikwocket 14y ago
    If you want to run some distributed computing but don't like SETI@Home, give worldcommunitygrid.org a look. They run a number of projects aimed at curing stubborn diseases and working on clean energy and water. As a bonus, if you use it as your screensaver, the graphics for many of the projects are pretty cool.
  • cryptoz 14y ago
    What? Don't be silly. If they delivered no results or "nothing" at all, the project would have been shut down years ago. SETI has consisently reported that they have searched through a very large amount of signal and found only natural noise. That data is extremely valuable and is absolutely not "nothing".
    • shaurz 14y ago
      The aliens are using subspace communication, no wonder we haven't found anything yet.
      • rorrr 14y ago
        Or encrypted communications, indistinguishable from noise.
        • timbre 14y ago
          An unintended consequence of the "https everywhere" practice.
        • Zarathust 14y ago
          It doesn't have to be encrypted, just some basic compression algorithm eliminate patterns and make it very difficult to distinguish from noise. Being efficient achieves the same result as being sneaky
  • ctdonath 14y ago
    Sometimes, as with the Michelson–Morley experiment, a result of "nothing" is absolutely profound and changes the course of science.
    • frozenport 14y ago
      Michelson and Morley could reach a negative conclusion with one experiment It is not clear when to stop SETI