The world's largest 'supercomputer' is searching the sky for alien signals and home computer users are donating their machines' idle time over the internet.
About 500,000 users are donating their idle computer time to the search for aliens in what is claimed to be the largest distributed processing project ever. The Seti@home (Search for extra terrestr...
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