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Wow, I feel old, SETI was what got me hooked on this very forum back in '99.

The Old SETI forum was great especially with the competition with some of the other groups in the SETI leagues.
 
I often thought this was a bunch of people having a sit down on a sofa

Now i know.
 
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OCUK team 145th in the rankings, not bad! I did it for a short while years ago then totally forgot! Don't remember if I joined the team.
 
I recall doing this back in the late 90s and early 2000s but never joined any teams.

Given that we now encrypt all communications, is it not plausible that other species do the same or use forms of communication that we are not looking for?

I do hope to know for certain that we are not alone.
 
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EGuitarStar said:
Given that we now encrypt all communications, is it not plausible that other species do the same or use forms of communication that we are not looking for?
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One theory is that "noisy" planetary civilisations don't last long as they attract unwanted attention ;)

Its more likely of course that we just haven't seen anything because of the timescales involved.

If another civilisation "looked" at our solar system the same way a couple of hundred years ago they'd have seen bugger all. In the last hundred years we've gone from AM radio @ 300kHz for the emergency maritime morse channel to modulation schemes and frequencies which would have seemed like alien technology to engineers back then. In another 100 years maybe we'll be mostly radio silent again - and hence "invisible" to the sort of scan Seti did.
 
Wasn't one of the main OCUK contributors called "Minister of Serendipity" and he'd installed the software on his work servers?
 
A few of the big hitters did that, I wasn't a big hitter but did have more than one of the shinny new servers at work "Stress Testing" for a period of time
 
tamzzy said:
awh...

this was my contribution lol
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Your user ID is 315523, I've looked and mine is 4820 so I was in there right at the start!

I did 25,000 WUs and had 104,308 hours.

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Wasn't one of the main OCUK contributors called "Minister of Serendipity" and he'd installed the software on his work servers?
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Yeah, I did that too (and got accused of cheating).

BigBoy said:
Wow, I feel old, SETI was what got me hooked on this very forum back in '99.
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I think I joined originally with a hardware question but the SETI forum was where I settled, it was nice then, very lively.
 
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Folding was protein folding - yes there's lots on that, and even Deepmind ended up sorting out protein geometries at a later date.
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I imagine Alphafold is kind of the evolution of that now.

edit... sorry brain fail. seems they are one and the same. I worked with Alphafold 3 data last year
 
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@Feek there were some great people's in the SETI forum, had some great laughs back then.

I cannot find my account and the email it was linked to is long gone :(

Edit found the account but not able to log in User ID 187853
 
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Bit of a blast from the past :) Member of the OcUK team :cool:

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Used to run SETI on my game server when it was idle in the early 2000s, can't remember the specs now :(
 
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1999 I found my profile, I was on a gaming group not OCUK yet as that was later. Doubt I can login as hotmail took my email in my own name for being absent for 6 months, thanks microsoft

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