{"id":999,"date":"2003-03-13T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/14\/150-setihome-possibilities\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:02:59","slug":"150-setihome-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/13\/150-setihome-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"150 SETI@home possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15116,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313143854\\\/https:\\\/\\\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:12:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:12:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15117,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.spaceref.com\\\/news\\\/viewpr.html?pid=10922&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A few years back, I was part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\/\" title=\"SETI@home: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home\">SETI@home<\/a> project, which uses spare processor cycles on your computer to help look for possible signals from life elsewhere in our galaxy. Unfortunately, various reformats, computer changes, and my own fickle interests led me to stop contributing to the project a while back.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, though, the project has produced a list of possible candidate signals, and three members of the team will be going to the Aricebo telescope in Puerto Rico later this month to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewpr.html?pid=10922\" title=\"SpaceRef.com: Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look\">investigate 150 possible signals<\/a>! Very cool!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one has to wonder how much of a bill 150 intergalactic wrong numbers would be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, one has to wonder how much of a bill 150 intergalactic wrong numbers would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}