OFF: looking for life

[DASLUD at AOL.COM]

the title of the article in monday's BOSTON GLOBE was  if ET does call home,
PC owners might listen in.

i'm not up to pecking the whole thing out, but: "beginning today, anyone with
a home or office computer can participate in the Search for ExtraTerrestrial
Intelligence, also known as SETI, and anyone who does could end up being the
person credited with helping to make the most earth shaking discovery of all
time.

"SETI at home, as the program is called... consists of special software that
acts like a screen saver. whenever the computer is idle, it begins analyzing
data collected by the world's largest radiotelescope, the Arecibo dish in
puerto rico, which looks for signs of intelligent signals from far away."

there's much more than i've typed, but at the end:
"starting today, anyone can download the software from either of these sites:

www.planetary.org
www.setiathome.ssl.bekeley.edu

and with the hawkwind liverpool empire 10/23/97 pt.1 download from
punkcast.com choogling in the background (just as discussed last week!)...
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