> Precisely. I hope a serious discussion, short of a "war," can be ignited,
> although perhaps GIMPS is not the proper forum. George and
> and the other pioneers and principals might weigh in on this. The "listening"
> SETI group, not the astro-physicist community searching for Earth-like planets,
> seems a bit lunatic fringe.
I agree, the logistics of them sending a message to Earth and us recieving
it seem, well, a bit out of this world. :) In this case they are not hurting
us though. It may seem that they are, but my guess would be that the number
of people that switched from GIMPS to SETI@Home is small. It's not like we
would have a million people giving us their CPU power were it not for SETI.
All in all, SETI is probably a benefit. Think of the number of articles
about SETI@Home that also incidentally mention GIMPS (I can think of at
least 2 in the last month alone...). This probably helps us recruit members.
-Lucas
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