Space Daily August 30, 2026 • 16:30

For 21 years, millions of volunteers let UC Berkeley use their home computers to search the sky for alien signals, producing 12 billion detections — after a decade of filtering, scientists narrowed them to roughly 100 targets worth a second look. - Space Daily

SETI@home’s 12 billion threshold events became roughly 100 FAST follow-up targets after interference filtering, blind synthetic-signal tests and manual review.

For 21 years, a global network of ordinary computers performed an extraordinary amount of radio astronomy. From 1999 until SETI@home stopped distributing new work in 2020, millions of volunteers let … [+11879 chars]

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For 21 years, millions of volunteers let UC Berkeley use their home computers to search the sky for alien signals, producing 12 billion detections — after a decade of filtering, scientists narrowed them to roughly 100 targets worth a second look. - Space Daily

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