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SETI@Home Has Finally Been Completed After 27 Years, Here's What Was Found

2026-01-20 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about SETI@Home final results Links: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade5ab/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade5a7/pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R2NbXhk-VM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdpESuT3eI #seti #aliens #science 0:00 SETI@Home is complete! 1:30 What this project was in a nutshell 2:20 100 Signals found out of billions?! 3:50 How this was achieved 5:20 What was achieved so far and why this is important 6:30 Main signals that were searched for 7:15 Why 100 signals were special 7:50 What researchers are planning now 8:40 Conclusions and what null results mean 9:50 What's next? 10:50 Implications Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com University of Central Florida Michelle Negron, National Science Foundation Al Piskun CC BY SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home#/media/File:SETI@home_custom_background_and_logo_screensaver.gif Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

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@deadman5985 2026-01-20

The SETI@Home screensaver was the heater for my room in the winter back then - win/win 👍🏼

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@dandagenais7913 2026-01-19

Oh this brings back so many fun memories. I ran this on my home computer when I wasn't home and my work computer when I wasn't at work. Then I talked half a dozen more people into doing the same. Then I setup a work lab with 3 machines running day and night...for years. It was awesome to be a part of something so incredible for so many reasons.

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@thezone3946 2026-01-20

i ran this on 2 computers for years on a university internet connection 20-25 years ago. it was so exciting to see my computers helping in the search. RIP Aricebo telescope. you were a legend.

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@OLD_CROW 2026-01-20

When I was IT Director for a school district, I talked the principals into letting my team install the screen saver on their computers. One summer I had over 800 computers grinding for two months.

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@FreejackVesa 2026-01-21

That period of time, being the time before the internet was commodified and socialized, was very exciting. I miss it.

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@carlettoburacco9235 2026-01-20

I remember when SETI@Home started: "No one will be stupid enough to let someone else use their PC, it's dangerous, something could infiltrate, BS project, it's going to be a failure..." ... and within a few weeks the folks at UC Berkeley had to go to the managers and beg for more bandwidth because they had more demand than any other project at the time.

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@whatdamath 2026-01-21

Excited to read so many interesting memories everyone had with this project. Too bad I ended up erasing everything from my PC long ago.

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@sedate4lyfe243 2026-01-21

I feel honored to have participated in this back in the day! I always enjoyed checking the number of data blocks that had been processed on my computer for S.E.T.I.

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@gravidar 2026-01-21

I ran this at home and at work. While at work at an internet startup (late 90's) the CEO was doing a walkabout and saw my screen, he remarked, "wow, so this is how you monitor the servers!" so I could only really answer "um, yes. yes it is" 🤐

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@coolvideos8864 2026-01-21

I ran this for years wanting to have the machine that finds the magic signal

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