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channels:setiathome [2019/02/23 14:07]
Yendred SETI@home & Science IRC Links added
channels:setiathome [2019/09/23 03:27]
Yendred Hirschmilch Radio link and web page updated date updated
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 ====== Welcome to the #SETI@home IRC Channel on AfterNET ====== ====== Welcome to the #SETI@home IRC Channel on AfterNET ======
  
-//“Men and Women wanted for a hazardous Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful if your beverage isn'caffeinated. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” -- AfternetShackleton@setiathome.berkeley.edu//+//“Men and Women wanted for a hazardous distributed computing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Low wages, bitter false positives, long hours of data crunching, overheating CPU's and GPUs. Safe return doubtful without caffeinated beverages. Honour and recognition in event of technosignal detection.” 
 +(adapted from the apocryphal newspaper ad made by famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton)//
  
-**SETI@home, an international scientific distributed computing project using the idle cycles of internet-connected computers & Android devices such as yours in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), needs your help to process data received from the Arecibo, GBT, LOFAR, MeerKatMWA & Parkes radio telescopes. Join us today at** [[https://setiathome.berkeley.edu]] +**SETI@home, an international scientific distributed computing project using the idle cycles of internet-connected computers & Android devices such as yours in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), needs your help to process data received from the Arecibo, GBT, Parkes - and eventually LOFAR, MeerKat MWA radio telescopes. Join us today at [[https://setiathome.berkeley.edu]], here on the #SETI@home channel, and follow curated SETI@home & science news through [[https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com]].** 
  
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 {{https://i.imgur.com/7FIYrC0.jpg}} Flag of Earth - SETI Site [[http://www.flagofearth.org/]] {{https://i.imgur.com/7FIYrC0.jpg}} Flag of Earth - SETI Site [[http://www.flagofearth.org/]]
  
-//“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” -- Sir Ernest Shackleton, b. on Feb. 15th, 1874//+//“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton (Feb. 15th, 1874 – Jan. 5th, 1922)//
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 You might find the following **SETI & SETI@home historical backgrounders & references** useful :  You might find the following **SETI & SETI@home historical backgrounders & references** useful : 
  
 +  * //SETI@home, the Alien-Hunting Project for the Nonscientist, Turns 20 - The Ringer (2019/5/24)// [[https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/5/24/18637942/seti-home-aliens-citizen-science-extraterrestrial-life-20th-anniversary]]
   * //A Brief History of Scientists Searching for Extraterrestrial Life - There's still no sign of alien life, but that hasn't stopped researchers from looking for the past 50 years (2015)// [[https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmaawd/a-brief-history-of-scientists-searching-for-extraterrestrial-life-124]]   * //A Brief History of Scientists Searching for Extraterrestrial Life - There's still no sign of alien life, but that hasn't stopped researchers from looking for the past 50 years (2015)// [[https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmaawd/a-brief-history-of-scientists-searching-for-extraterrestrial-life-124]]
   * //A Brief History of SETI@home - How astronomers deputized early internet users to help find alien civilizations (2017)// [[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/aliens-on-your-packard-bell/527445/]]   * //A Brief History of SETI@home - How astronomers deputized early internet users to help find alien civilizations (2017)// [[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/aliens-on-your-packard-bell/527445/]]
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   * //SETI@home & Science IRC Links// [[https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com]]   * //SETI@home & Science IRC Links// [[https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com]]
  
-**Bonus Music Videos** :+**Bonus Music ** :
    
   * //A-HA - Minor Earth Major Sky (Official Music Video)// [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJxII1C0QjM]]   * //A-HA - Minor Earth Major Sky (Official Music Video)// [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJxII1C0QjM]]
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   * //Moby - We Are All Made of Stars (Official Music Video)// [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1rFAaAKpVc]]   * //Moby - We Are All Made of Stars (Official Music Video)// [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1rFAaAKpVc]]
   * //Tony Anderson - Diana (A gorgious night at the geographical south pole (Keck Telescope Array, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica - 6 mins timelapse music video)// [[https://youtu.be/t57DPnH06V0]]   * //Tony Anderson - Diana (A gorgious night at the geographical south pole (Keck Telescope Array, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica - 6 mins timelapse music video)// [[https://youtu.be/t57DPnH06V0]]
-  * +  * //Hirschmilch Radio// [[https://hirschmilch.de]] 
 +  * //Third Rock Radio// [[https://thirdrockradio.net]]
  
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 //All our thanks to AfterNET & [[users:rubin|Rubin]] for making our presence here possible (amongst many other [[https://www.afternet.org/users|users]] and [[https://www.afternet.org/channels/home?s[]=pages|channels with pages]]), and to [[users:rubin|Rubin]] & [[users:gatewayy|Gatewayy]] for providing precious technical expertise and tips.//  //All our thanks to AfterNET & [[users:rubin|Rubin]] for making our presence here possible (amongst many other [[https://www.afternet.org/users|users]] and [[https://www.afternet.org/channels/home?s[]=pages|channels with pages]]), and to [[users:rubin|Rubin]] & [[users:gatewayy|Gatewayy]] for providing precious technical expertise and tips.// 
  
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