Giant Magellan Telescope (Space Discussion)

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Seth, Feb 12, 2015.

  1. Yes, well, it was kind of a seti screen saver, if that's the one I was thinking about.
    There was a program for a while that would use the public to look for anomalies in the data, looked like a screen saver.
    There's so much data that was received, they only analyzed like 0.1% of it. So they wanted the public to help search for it by using their computing power, as a combined super computer to analyze all of it.
    Don't know if that's what you're referring to.
     
  2. Yup!! I had that while my background pic was spirit or opportunity

    :)
     
  3. Yeah I know you can go to the Hubble website and download some amazing wallpaper and images. Stars being born.
    I totally forgot about that SETI project, but whoever came up with the idea to use thousands or hundreds of thousands of computers to share and analyze the data was brilliant
     
  4. Absolutely - it was a treat to be a part of that :)