Seti Home

From microbes to alien intelligence the seti institute is america s only organization wholly dedicated to searching for life in the universe.

Seti home. It uses internet connected computers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence seti. Seti home is a scientific experiment that uses hundreds of thousands of computers connected to the internet to scan the firmament in search of regularities or small amounts of radiation that indicate the existence of intelligent life. One approach known as radio seti uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow bandwidth radio signals from space such signals are not known to occur naturally so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

2020 university of california seti home and astropulse are funded by grants from the national science foundation nasa and donations from seti home volunteers. 2020 university of california seti home and astropulse are funded by grants from the national science foundation nasa and donations from seti home volunteers. Volunteers run a free program on their computer that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

Scientists at the university of california berkeley s seti home project say they ll stop sending new work to the network of volunteers who ve been using their computers to search for aliens since. Or create an account. Boinc downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background.

Seti home has been in operation for 20 years and more than 5 2 million people have. You ll need about 20 mb of free disk space and 64 mb of ram. Seti home is a scientific experiment based at uc berkeley.

A nonprofit research organization. There is an initial download of about 10 mb.