# Still doing SETI@home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549 "2001-06-12T16:02:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/1 "2001-06-12T16:02:32Z")
A while ago, many of us SD’ers were involved in the Seti@home project. I was wondering how many of you are still letting this run on your 'puters spare time? 311 units completed here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/2 "2001-06-12T16:09:21Z")
I still run SETI on my home computer, but at work I switched to United Devices which is looking at proteins to potentially find a cure for cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/3 "2001-06-12T16:35:06Z")
I swithed all my computers to the UD cancer project. I think it’s a lot more likely to be successful than SETI. ---
**Author:** ![DJScherr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DJScherr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJScherr)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/4 "2001-06-12T17:49:55Z")
I am still running it, I just keep forgetting to turn it back on when I finish playing games :), and I plan on running it full time on both my web server, and file server when I get them running. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/5 "2001-06-12T17:54:04Z")
I began running SETI@home recently, and I’ve only completed four data units. Of course, I’m running it on a laptop that isn’t on all the time, and I’ve only given it 67h, 15m so far. But I like the idea of looking for intelligent life out there in the Universe. (This is _such_ an IMHO thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/6 "2001-06-12T18:01:21Z")
I’m running SETI@Home, but I belong to another group, not the SDMB. And, in my sick and twisted mind, I find the SETI project more worthy of my computing cycles than a cancer cure project. [sub]I feel a flame coming on.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/7 "2001-06-12T19:07:21Z")
For those of you interested in joining up with the United Devices project, see [this link](http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=44FC179A-BF1C-4BED-87E5-959767480CDA). There is an SDMB team. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/8 "2001-06-12T19:20:47Z")
Yup…I still do it. I have SETI Driver running, and it hides the command line version, so I can use that (much faster computer). It also caches units in case the Berkeley servers go down for a few days. Right now I’m at around 350 units or so. Jman ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/9 "2001-06-12T21:13:06Z")
Poll. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/10 "2001-06-12T21:25:13Z")
Hi Chronos, see any good looking women cruise by your desk lately?😉 IHMO, this is a general question, addressed to the general population. Discussing the merits of the various research projects to donate your excess puter time to would be a IMHO subject. However you see fit to place the thread, really makes me no never mind though. Glad to see that there are still a few folks donating their spare computing time. Both the UD and the Seti projects really need the help. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/11 "2001-06-12T21:27:37Z")
Yep. Only have about 33 units done so far though. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/12 "2001-06-12T22:01:21Z")
hehehe … he said _unit/_ … hehehe 330 units, 3258 hours. I don’t belong to a team as of yet. I’m tempted to join UD, and donate my SETI points to some team out there. Any takers? ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/13 "2001-06-12T22:04:15Z")
It’s a bit like democracy, no? Individual votes are virtually zero, but if they all vanished we’d be in trouble. I was doing it. Switched to cancer. No use finding aliens if I’m dead. How much help am I being, though, if my machine only scores 26 against the one they offer as a comparison device? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/14 "2001-06-12T22:06:23Z")
I’m still doing SETI…671 units done. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/15 "2001-06-13T01:27:14Z")
[slight hijack] For those of you who are using the United Devices do-hicky, you might want to give [this](http://slashdot.org/science/01/04/03/1634259.shtml) a read. Note that there is another protein-folding project available (called [Folding@Home](http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm/)), which is being run by Stanford University. Just a heads-up. [/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/16 "2001-06-18T09:40:14Z")
[http://www.satirewire.com/news/0106/seti.shtml](http://www.satirewire.com/news/0106/seti.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/17 "2001-06-18T09:56:23Z")
up at over 380 units and well over 9800 hours still signed up with the SDMB team and there are some guys in there who are just clocking up the cycles ! go boy go! ---
**Author:** ![mfield31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@mfield31](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mfield31)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/18 "2001-06-18T10:09:57Z")
My mom just recently started the SETI project on our home computer. She really had me worried when I got an e-mail from her while I was at work stating that when I got home, I should not turn off our computer because it was searching for extraterrestial life forms (kinda ironic since I work at NASA.) Once she explained, I was at ease. Whatever makes her happy! When I get home today, I am going to tell her about the United Device because it seems like a better cause. And who ever said nothing good comes out of these boards! ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/19 "2001-06-18T10:40:06Z")
1699 units [sub]in [alt.fan.cecil-adams](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_31937.html)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-doing-seti-home/68549/20 "2001-06-18T18:50:30Z")
1200 units–it’s currently only running on my Sparc; I’m running the UD client on my Windows box for now.