SETI at home is a cool screen saver that does the ultimate discovery task -- searches for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence while your computer is idling. It periodically loads blocks of sky signals to analyze and then works on them to find several types of patterns. The website below has a very nice explanation of the issues in searching for signals from ET. You can download SETI@home from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
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