Here is where you and I help, we have computers that we use at home or work. The ones at home for the most part are used to read this board or that board, surf the net and play games. When our screen savers come on the cpu continues to run, but does not do a damned thing in most cases.

So, the SETI Institute thought to themselves hey, we need serious crunching power to perform the search for the very, very weak signals that we just cannot do with our computers because of the enormous amount of data. But, there are millions of pc's and mac's and other platforms around the world that could run a program in the background to perform these calculations. That would be equivalent to one huge computer with a million or more processors and virtually unlimited memory and storage.

So what they have done, is written a screen saver program that does these calculations using our computer's which then send the results back and recieve a new data packet.

Go to http://www.set.org then click on the seti@home link and check it out.

If your computer is the one that crunches the data showing that ET exists, you get credit with the others for discovering ET.

It is really cool stuff.

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