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Help the MacRumors SETI Team get on the Top 200 Lists!

I still believe we can crack the top 200... We lost one member with 42 WU, but we have added a new member with 8 WU. Welcome to the team Matt!!!

On a more exciting note, we have more members in the red than ever. I am certain that the team is growing.

However our average daily stats has fallen to 334.88. (Last 24 hours was a poor 291. :(
 
I think we're slowly gaining on that 200th Club Team spot. As of this moment (and I don't know when the stats pages are updated), the SETI servers say we're 35597 work units away from getting there. I think it would do us good if another story was posted to the front page about our SETI/Folding teams, since last time that really spiked our member/WU numbers.
 
applemacdude said:
Convince me why my TEAM( c sig) should disband and join your team? ;)
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Pick your proverb: The more the merrier. There's safety in numbers. It takes a village. Your house is our house. Everybody loves a party. SETI loves company. A small stone gathers no moss.

OK, maybe I made a few of those up.
 
I know a lot of people like seti and it is kinda cool. it makes so much more sense to support folding@home though because what they are doing actually helps people. not looks for aliens that may or may not be out there. :p

just saying..
 
blue&whiteman said:
I know a lot of people like seti and it is kinda cool. it makes so much more sense to support folding@home though because what they are doing actually helps people. not looks for aliens that may or may not be out there. :p

just saying..
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Supporting SETI@home makes so much more sense because aliens are obviously going to be much more technologically advanced than us so they can offer us cures for all our disease once we find them. It's just a matter of finding them.

... :rolleyes:
 
You can do both...

Really guys, you can fold and SETI at the same time...if you have a dual 2.0...

mwaaaahaaahaahaaa

1 2.0Ghz, 1 Seti unit, 2hrs 47 min average.... smokin!!!

Angus
 
We still need some more computing power to propel us up into the 200th club team spot. I'm looking at a 38324 WU gap right now, and it usually fluctuates between 35000 and 45000 depending on when the team stats and the top 200 club stats are updated. While it's good that we don't seem to be losing ground against the 200th club team, we aren't gaining any ground either!

Try and find all the power you can get so we can start to slowly gain on that 200th spot. (Alternatively, prod one of the administrators into mentioning the MacRumors SETI and Folding teams on the front page again. :) )
 
It'll take a while to trickle down, but the newly announced iBooks and PowerBooks will find their way into members' hands and boost the average units they can contribute per day.
 
Well guys I've become sympathetic to your plight and after almost deciding to join Team Anandtech I figured y'all had a better fight on your hands and trying to crack the top 200 seems funner than trying to hold onto 6th. Anyways I'm having a hard time joining your team. The pages keep coming back unable to display......anyone have any bright ideas??

Never mind finally got it :)
 
44th place & nearly 4 years crunching SETI -- of late, have been doing GIMPS via Virtual PC and Folding under osX -- but maybe I can kick my stats up to 1100 before 4th July :cool: to help out.
 
LINUX

well, i had this really fun time with getting linux on an 800Mhz PowerMac...it's on my webpage at www.pyroturtle.com...that aside, i wanted to run distributed computing on it cause it's on 24/7

lo and behold, there's no way to run folding on PPC linux! but the nice people at seti have provided a binary for me! so, i'm back with at least one computer. i'll probably add another 800 tower this next week too...

then it's time to get that 4400 of mine folding....have fun guys, and please, someone remind me to put links to the team pages on my website!
 
So...

... anyone still out there doing SETI@home stuff? I just started up again after seeing SETI@home had completely changed over to BOINC. We're actually in the top 300 teams too, so we're still not doing too badly. :)
 
kwajo.com said:
I used to do SETI back in its first year, but I've switched to Folding, it just seems more worthwhile
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Good choice,
First An advance Alien civilization wouldnt have much to gain by communicating with primitives like us who are still killing each every day and have yet to master space travel.

Second An advance civilization wouldnt be using radio waves, heck radio is obsolete for us now and we havent even been using it 100 years why the heck would aliens be using this primitive stuff?

3rd the distance involved means they will never hear our reply.

4th Our own Freedom & Liberty loving U.S.Govt has gone to extremes to cover up & hide the subject matter of U.F.O.s on every level. Even to the point of hiding info from 60 years ago. WHY? Because the tech involved makes our tech look like stone knives and bearskins in comparison and there is nothing the control freaks in Govt & Military can do about it and they know it.
 
Dont Hurt Me said:
First An advance Alien civilization wouldnt have much to gain by communicating with primitives like us who are still killing each every day and have yet to master space travel.
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So you don't think such a civilization would want to help us out?
Second An advance civilization wouldnt be using radio waves, heck radio is obsolete for us now and we havent even been using it 100 years why the heck would aliens be using this primitive stuff?
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Radio is obsolete for long distance communication? You might want to inform NASA.

3rd the distance involved means they will never hear our reply.
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Oh, so you know their lifespan as well as their motivation?

4th Our own Freedom & Liberty loving U.S.Govt has gone to extremes to cover up & hide the subject matter of U.F.O.s on every level. Even to the point of hiding info from 60 years ago. WHY? Because the tech involved makes our tech look like stone knives and bearskins in comparison and there is nothing the control freaks in Govt & Military can do about it and they know it.
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Don't believe everything you hear and see on the History and Discovery channels...

As for me, I started doing SETI@Home and now Einstein@Home (gravity well prediction I think) with BOINC Menubar. I'll gladly add F@H if/when they switch to it. Perhaps I should add the protein folding project that DOES use BOINC...
 
Counterfit said:
As for me, I started doing SETI@Home and now Einstein@Home (gravity well prediction I think) with BOINC Menubar. I'll gladly add F@H if/when they switch to it. Perhaps I should add the protein folding project that DOES use BOINC...
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I'm pretty much in the same situation as you are, but now I've switched from SETI to Einstein, since my G5 1.9 on SETI has about the same output as my old P4 1.8, :( ....and Einstein utilises the Altivec instructions (beat the crap out of an AMD 3000+)... :D

As for Folding which has yet to be BOINCed, I would recommend Predictor@home instead....
 
I used to do SETI with my PC, but I haven't for years, and my G4 iMac probably can't contribute too much. (Yes, I know every little bit helps... ;))

Regardless, aliens would not communicate with us using radio waves - they utilize a much higher form of energy which we don't really grasp as of yet. Plus, they have already made contact with us, so any results from SETI would just end up telling us what some of us already know. :cool:
 
~Shard~ said:
I used to do SETI with my PC, but I haven't for years, and my G4 iMac probably can't contribute too much. (Yes, I know every little bit helps... ;))
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Yes every little bit helps....would you be instrested in folding for team macrumors? ;) I have my 1 ghz emac folding!
 
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