Seti Live Website To Crowdsource the Search For Alien Life

bs0d3 writes "Scientists need your help in the search for life beyond Earth. The SETI Institute is asking the public to join in its hunt for signals from intelligent civilizations out there in the universe. Anyone can register on the new website, SETI Live, to help analyze data from SETI's radio telescope devoted to scanning the heavens for signals from E.T.."

Re:Earth

[sehlat]

Because closer to home, like within 100,000 miles of Washington, the odds are VERY low.

Better idea

[devleopard]

Hey, they could build an app that people could install on their computer or something! I think if they do that, they could give it a name like "distributed computing" or the like. Or even better, since most people use their computers at home, they could throw that in the name as well.

Re:SETI can't detect earth-like civilizations

[Concerned Onlooker]

"Until SETI improves its resolution, this is all just masturbation."

Well, then, count me in!

So, ...

[PPH]

... it has come to this.