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After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations

‘We’re now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,’ co-founder tells El Reg

For more than 20 years, SETI@home has sent radio telescope readings to volunteers’ home computers to sift for potential signs of extraterrestrial life among the universe’s roar of signals. Come the end of this month, that distributed computing effort will cease.…