On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Chris Nash wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> As we all impatiently await verification of M38(?) a really stupid thought
> occurred to me, so apologies if it's a lot more ignorant than Chuck W.'s
> "definitive" post on the subject of GIMPS v SETI, or distributed computing
> in general.
>
> If the verification of M38 is making us impatient, how on earth would we
> feel if SETI did find E.T., and we had to wait thousands of years for our
> reply to get back? And, if we send M1, M2, M3.... M38 as proof of our
> intelligence, what will *their* comparative results be by the time the
> message arrives?
Talking about impatience, there is something I don't understand:
are we waiting just for the doublecheck to be completed or does the
EFF prize somehow require that M38 be kept secret until publication?
I hope not, that would be very strange indeed...
http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau
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