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The so-called miners mining sensational Bitcoin cryptocurrencies continue to increase momentum with each month. They literally sweep away all the expensive ones from store shelves video cards, leaving lovers without good graphics cards video games, animation makers, and other people who need high digital power. Now it turned out that to such disgruntled and experts of the famous SETI project.
SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence) presents a unique ufological community. Its members use large computing power for sending messages into space, targeting representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations, as well as search, in turn, for signals that “green men” can in theory send us. Ufologists also fell victim to the ubiquitous miners, because now they can’t get good video cards in the required quantity.
Professor Dan Vertimer has now paid attention to the problem – one of the leading minds of the project. According to him, experts from University of California at Berkeley participating in SETI wished recently buy new equipment required by the local observatory to increase alien search capabilities, however lack of advanced GPU market has made such an update impossible. This, of course, limits the capabilities of scientists.
Recall that SETI experts have been looking for aliens since 1959. Unfortunately (or fortunately), while they have not progressed too far. No trace of the “green men” at the moment by them not found. The project is criticized, on the one hand, for frank lack of results, and on the other, for the intention get such results. Some scientists seriously believe that we in no case should they send signals into space, since they can be intercepted by an aggressive race that they wish destroy or enslave humanity. Other ufologists, in their in turn, they perplexedly consider the activity of SETI, which does not sees aliens under his nose, that is, on Earth, trying to find unknown where and unknown how. Moreover, it is believed that and the Bitcoin cryptocurrency itself was created by aliens. Can, SETI specialists need in their search for an extraterrestrial civilization try to start with Bitcoin? ..
