Mallorcan Internauts searching for extraterrestrial intelligence

The SETI@home project, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, developed by the Berkeley University (California) in collaboration with the SETI institute, has many participants on Mallorca. As well as individual volunteers, a whole group called SETI@Mallorca with some 40 members are analysing with their personal computers chunks of data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and distributed via the Internet. The objective is to find in those chunks of data signals of intelligent life outside Earth.

To participate in the project, which has millions of users all over the world, all you need is a computer with internet connection (not necessarily permanent) and download and install the client software. The system works like a screensaver, so it is only executed when the user is not working with his computer.

There is more information about the project on the web of SETI@home. You can also find information on the experiment on the web of SalCanAn, one of the members of the SETI@Mallorca group.

Datum: 22/01/2003

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