SETI@Home

Jul. 28th, 2004 04:22 pm
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I have downloaded SETI@Home onto my work PC, this adding my run-time to the search for Martians wherever they may be hiding.
One thing that SETI say they'll do is that, if your PC is the one that discovers alien signals, they will allow you to name the alien race.

I mean, how cool is that?

"The tentacled monstrosities from beyond!"
"The menace from the stars"
"David's Space Bitches"

I just can't wait to discover my very own alien race so I can name them. I mean - how difficult can it be? There's got to be lots of aliens out there. I've seen Star Wars and Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica and any number of other TV shows about Space, and all of them are rammed with frisky alien ne'er-do-wells, desperate to make free with our Earth women.
So not only could I prove that we're not alone in the Universe, we couild also have a jolly good war with Johnny Martian and show him who's boss.

But, as a question to you lot - if you discovered an alien race, what would you name them?
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Date: 2004-07-28 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
Oh, Oh, I know what you could call them!

"Yorkshiremen"

Although I dont think there is anything that Alien out there....

Date: 2004-07-28 08:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
What a great name! It has a certain resonance of...civilisation...great deed...generosity..kindness...stoicism in the face of adversity.

Date: 2004-07-28 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weejock.livejournal.com
Repostians

Date: 2004-07-28 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Curses, hoist by own own petard :)

Date: 2004-07-28 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
....avarice, weak beer and best of all we know how to beat them! Get a second rate welsh nobleman who is brought up in France to round up an army in the NW and hey presto - they'll all be looking for their horses!

Date: 2004-07-28 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Ah, but these'll be SPACE Yorkshiremen, and thus won't fall for such underhanded trickery.

seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emlett.livejournal.com
i have seti on 2 work pc's as well as my home one and two of my blokes work ones. unfortunately the conveyancers didn't take well to my suggestion that they could discover alien life & be famous if they just let me install a fab new screensaver
Bastards!

Re: seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
You keep your theiving hands off of my Martians!

Re: seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emlett.livejournal.com
i think you mean you're emletians
heh heh

Re: seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
You fool, the great Davidian race from beyond will smash you into Atoms!

Date: 2004-07-28 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
What? Like superior strategic skill, tactical brillence, actually brining the horses TO THE BATTLEFIELD and not trusting the Stanleys?

Re: seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
Davidians? Waco?

Date: 2004-07-28 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
In space we won't need horses!

See how your weak astrostratgy falls before the might of Moon-Yorkshire.

Date: 2004-07-28 08:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
A bit like your syntacs.

So, They are all infrantry then? Huzzah for the tanks!

And Moon-Yorkshire? I am not even going to grace that one with a comment....

Date: 2004-07-28 08:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
I was considering the other day why all the planets were named after the Roman gods and not the Greek gods. Mars would be Ares then, so we would call aliens Aretians.

Hermes, Aphrodite, Earth, Ares, Zeus, Kronos, Poseidon, Uranus, Hades

Date: 2004-07-28 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Of course they aren't infantry - how could that work in sapce? With a mighty rumble the massed armada of the Moon-Yorkshire Cosmocavalry crushes your puny tank regiments.
Next Stop - Lancaster!

Date: 2004-07-28 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
And it's spelt "Syntax"

Date: 2004-07-28 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Hur hur hur...Anusians...hur hur.

Re: seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emlett.livejournal.com
i shall be taking over the multiverse shortly with the aid of my emletian friends and you and your puny "Alf" like allies will be first against the wall when the revolution comes!

Date: 2004-07-28 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
Thanks, I just won a Fiver

Date: 2004-07-28 08:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
No you didn't...

Date: 2004-07-28 08:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
Glad to see that Northern Humour is up to its usual high standards.

Date: 2004-07-28 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ukmonty.livejournal.com
....Oh Yes I Did...

Date: 2004-07-28 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Nah. Nobody with that much money would associate with you.

Re: seti nerd

Date: 2004-07-28 08:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Fool, have you not seen that my space station already orbits saturn? We shall obliterate you.
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