[Editor's note: We have been unable to corroborate this story from GHacks. A search on Google has found there are other reports of this, but they all refer to a forum that no longer corroborates this report. It seems there was — something — but that it is not now visible on their site. See, too, the "Previously" section at the bottom which suggests this story may be in error. Can any Soylentil shed some light on this? --martyb]
SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence comes to an end - gHacks Tech News:
SETI@Home will go into hibernation on March 31, 2020. The distributed computing project was launched in 1999 to analyze data provided by the radio telescope Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Later on, data from the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Parkes Observatory in Australia were added.
SETI@Home -- SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- broke down the signals into packets which it then distributed to connected computer systems. These computer systems, often operated by volunteers from around the world, would then be used to analyze the data and transfer results back to the project.
[...] The project maintainers at UC Berkeley provide two reasons for the decision:
- The project is "at a point of diminishing returns" as it has "analyzed all the data" that is needed "for now".
- Managing the distributed processing of data is a lot of work and time is required to complete the "back-end analysis of the results" that have been obtained already.
Hibernation means that the project is not disappearing from the face of the earth. The project website and forums remain open and the distributed computing resources of SETI@Home may be used by other scientific research projects to focus on areas such as "cosmology or pulsar research". Seti@Home may start distributing work again if that happens and the project team will make an announcement if a new research project has been found.
Previously:
New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday March 04 2020, @09:39AM (1 child)
Why does he assume that is 'must be US Air Force technology from Area 51"? Other nations have advanced technology and, if they have something that the US hasn't, they are hardly going to announce it to the world until they are ready. Alternatively, the fact that the crew don't discuss it might be because they knew it was coming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2020, @10:55AM
Yes I agree Russa or China, perhaps even French, Israeli or Japanese could well have secret advanced spaceflight capability. I am however a little doubtful as to this being such a craft. As for not talking about it I don't think you can infer much as this is standard operating procedure for a UFO. Report incident to superiors, don't talk about it.