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Re:SETI Needs Your Help to Resume Search for Extraterrestria... by cryptoz on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @01:47PM (#2842127)
What if your researches had been looking at only 100 cells of the billions/trillions of cells in the lungs (for example), and they said they'd like to expand to 200 of the maybe 100,000,000,000 cells available.

Do you still want to discontinue the search? It seems a bit premature at this point.

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Re:SETI Needs Your Help to Resume Search for Extraterrestria... by hugh3 on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @02:49PM (#2842433)
No, but I'd want to see a better methodology than the one that can only check 1e-9 of the available search space every few decades.
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