{"id":228987,"date":"2026-01-14T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:27:53","slug":"enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found","title":{"rendered":"Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET\u2014scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2014called SETI@home, after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)\u2014generated a loyal following eager to participate in one of the most popular crowd-sourced projects in the early days of the internet. They downloaded the SETI@home software to their home computers and allowed it to analyze data recorded at the now-defunct Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to find unusual radio signals from space.<\/p>\n<p>All told, these computations produced 12 billion detections\u2014 momentary blips of energy at a particular frequency coming from a particular point in the sky, according to computer scientist and project co-founder David Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project\u2014called SETI@home, after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)\u2014generated a loyal following eager to participate in one of the most popular crowd-sourced projects in the early days [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}