Crazy screen saver
 

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

It actually looks for aliens. I am going to find me some aliens. How in the hell does this work exaxctly?

I am looking for aliens right now, I better have found some when I come back or I will be pissed =)

Sounds like it would milk all your resources...does it? Sounds pretty cool

I have been using it a whole 5 minutes. All it is doing is setting in the taskbar doing whatever. Still no aliens, I will notify GFY as soon as I find some

Not at all... i have mine running in the background all the time.

Seen it a few years ago. All your computer is doing is reading files that you downloaded and decoding them so once you upload/download the next time the files your computer read is decoded for them.

The interesting thing about it is that we can see billions of light years away and we haven't found anything and everyone knows that sound can only travel so far is space so in short this program is yet another way of wasting your taxes.

But whatever turns you on!

I am using a similar program, instead of looking for aliens though, it looks for a cure to sars

I have seen it for a while, even used the canser thing myself
But I think i'ts not really looking for anything, its just using your CPU power for pig mathcalculations that busnisses have payd others to do - like one big-ass supercomputer - and you get NOTHING :-)