As a group of individuals who obviously are used to waiting patiently
over long periods time for results,  and who also have computers that
spend most of their "always on" time taking a few samples a second from
the A/D card and "Flying  through space" on the screen, I thought the PSN
members would be  excellent candidates for forming a team for the
SETI@home project.

This project out of Berkeley uses the wasted capacity of your Pentium 95
machine (or other platform) by giving you a screen saver program that
crunches data downloaded via their server from the Arecibo Radio
Observatory in PR. It crunches blocks of data about 300K in size and uses
16M of RAM while running. The CPU time required to process each block can
be anywhere between hours and weeks depending upon your hardware, and the
chance that you actually will get a block that proves to have the tiny CQ
from ET is certainly several orders of magnitude lower than recording an
M9 before the end of your life, or even that of keeping your Lehman
centered for more than a month, so I think it would be the perfect
challenge for most of us. The rewards from hopeless endeavors may never
be explained...

Anyway, go to: http://setiahome.ssl.berkeley.edu and download the
software. There is plenty of help and project description on line.

Larry could form a group (fill out an on-line form) for PSN and they even
have free graphic links to drop on the PSN home page(s). Then PSN users
could compete as a team with others such as the seti@SUN team that has
processed almost a quarter million blocks with something like 190 YEARS
of CPU time accumulated so far...

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