Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home

[cloverm]

The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/com...0269078,00.htm

[pbharris]

i'll not let my 2000+ work units be in vain!! well - at least we know what units not too look at

[cloverm]

SETI@home's director has moved to dampen fears the project is in danger of closing, claiming its chief scientist was "probably just in a pessimistic mood" when he e-mailed Australian scientists with a gloomy prognosis for its future. The director, David Anderson, told ZDNet Australia "we all have to devote a lot of our energy to raising money...sometimes it can be a bit discouraging.

http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-962555.html

[Kernel_Killer]

You know. We were suppose to only have enough funding until the middle of this year, but seeing that it's still thriving, that so many possibliies have been found in mostly in the same spot, and that people are donating, I kinda think you are right about the chief looking on the bad side of things. :P