{"id":72,"date":"2004-09-05T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/09\/05\/72\/"},"modified":"2004-09-05T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-05T22:35:42","slug":"seti-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/09\/05\/72\/","title":{"rendered":"SETI @ Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhznetworks.org\"target=_blank>MHz<\/a>, I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/nographic.jsp?id=ns99996341\"target=_blank>report<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\"target=_blank>SETI@Home<\/a> Project finding a mysterious frequency that might be from intelligent life.  Prior to reading the article, I didn&#8217;t know much about the <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\"target=_blank>SETI@Home<\/a> Project. I knew about SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and I knew that it was basically all about listening through static of space to find a stable frequency.  I did not know that this research was participatory!  The <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\"target=_blank>SETI@Home<\/a> Project allows people around the world to download a chunk of data and analyze it when their computer is not being used (its a nifty screensaver!).  Its passive research that employs millions of computers around the world to sift through the static of the universe.  Best yet, there is a MAC OS X client which allows me to partake in the research.  So now when I&#8217;m away from my computer, I&#8217;ll have a 3D satellite image graphic rendering and <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\"target=_blank>SETI@Home<\/a> analyzing noise from space.  Cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The data came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceimaging.com\/gallery\/top10_2002\/arecibo.htm\"target=_blank>Arecibo Radio Telescope<\/a> in Puerto Rico.  Its the same telescope featured in the James Bond film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldeneye.com\/julian\/\"target=_blank>Golden Eye<\/a>&#8221; and its also the stage for the last level of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendoland.com\/home2.htm?reviews\/n64\/goldeneye.htm \"target=_blank>Nintendo 64 game<\/a> (I spent so many hours playing that game in High School!).<\/p>\n<p>About my last post&#8230;  I came home last night to have the various mainstream news channels broadcasting live from inside of the hurricane.  I never want physical harm to come on to someone, but I morbidly recorded the news with the hopes that I&#8217;d record a reporter getting hit by some flying debris (I didn&#8217;t have any &#8220;luck&#8221;).  When I get done reformatting my external hard drive (RIP 20 gigs of MP3s!), I&#8217;ll encode one of the funniest segments I recorded of a reporter in the middle of the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching MHz, I saw this report about the SETI@Home Project finding a mysterious frequency that might be from intelligent life. Prior to reading the article, I didn&#8217;t know much about the SETI@Home Project. I knew about SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and I knew that it was basically all about listening through static of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}