The Search for E.T. Goes on Hold, for Now - The New York Times

The Search for E.T. Goes on Hold, for Now - The New York Times

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“We’ll keep working on results. One of them may be from E.T. We don’t know.”

Dan Werthimer, chief scientist of the SETI@home project, explains why the crowdsourced alien-searching screensaver is taking a break after 21 years. The dwindling team of scientists who run the programme say they need to spend more time analysing the 20 billion events flagged by the system, and less time keeping servers up and running. (The New York Times | 8 min read)