SETI@Home finds something!

[Andrew Green]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...PTOP?SITE=FLDAY&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT



Not a alien, but at least its something

 

[mrhnau]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...PTOP?SITE=FLDAY&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT



Not a alien, but at least its something

LOL Awesome I was about to get excited!

 

[CoryKS]

They're in California, and they can't find any aliens?!? Not exactly rocket scientists, are they?

 

[exile]

Forget extraterrestrial; we need a major scientific project just to find some terrestrial intelligence... seems in awfully short supply these days, doesn't it....

 

[Drac]

Forget extraterrestrial; we need a major scientific project just to find some terrestrial intelligence... seems in awfully short supply these days, doesn't it....

Brother did you say a mouthfull...

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Brother did you say a mouthfull...

Yes I would have to agree!!!

 

[Bigshadow]

Awesome story!

 

[crushing]

Cool story, but. . .

Annoyed - and alarmed that someone could delete the screenplays and novels that his wife, Melinda Kimberly, was writing - Melin monitored the SETI(at)home database to see if the stolen laptop would "talk" to the Berkeley servers.

then later in the article:

"I always knew that a geek would make a great husband," she said. "He always backed up all my data, but this topped it all.