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SETI@home Project Concludes Data Analysis, Offers Lessons for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Searches

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The SETI@home project, which ran for 21 years from 1999 to 2020, involved millions of global volunteers who loaned their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations. The project utilized data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and was one of the early popular crowd-sourced initiatives on the internet.

Project Overview and Data Processing

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project generated 12 billion momentary energy blips at specific frequencies and sky points. After a decade of analysis, the SETI@home team reduced these detections to approximately one million candidate signals, further narrowing them to 100 signals warranting further investigation. These targets have been observed by China

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