Reports that a group set up as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) has detected a radio transmission that it suspects could be a signal from an alien civilisation have been dismissed by the organisation.
The search for E.T. has been put on hold, apparently by low-tech vandals. The servers for SETI@Home, which coordinates the search for extraterrestrial intelligence via members' PCs, have been inaccessible since early Tuesday morning.
Despite successfully running for many years, astronomers behind the SETI@home project are looking for more computing power as they ramp up the amount of data they look at. And they want to borrow your system's spare time to do it.
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