by JaXanim:
"The cost of a concerted search for extra-terrestrial intelligence over ten years is about the same as a typical annual over-run on one weapon development budget."
Carl Sagan
Exactly. If it was taken seriously there would be funding for it.
I have a very open mind but am sceptical about the power of a large group of computers under control of one being used for a single task dictated to by a single organisation.
This talk of the program running on two seperate cores of the CPU at the same time is plain devious in my opinion.
Whilst I have a raised eyebrow about the SETI stuff I am more or less convinced that RC5 was a commercial venture to prove banking and military encryption technology before being sold on the mass market: after all, if the world cannot beat RC5 what hope have they of the 128-Bit SSL sold by some companies for websites?
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree but if you consider yourself as open minded as to believe extra terrestrials are trying to communicate with light-velocity particles (when it takes a year for photons to travel to our nearest planet harbouring neighbour) then surely it is prudent to believe that you could also be a guinea pig. Just like the millions who are unwittingly under the control of spyware, trojans, worms and botnets.
