Shitty crowd computing crap like SETI is already a massive fucking waste of resources.To be fair, at least SETI-at-home is doing useful computing for the sake of Science, especially astronomy, as astronomy involves gazillions of twinkle-twinkling little points in the sky we often (and erroneously) call "stars" which we wonder what they are: they can be entire galaxies from a younger cosmos, mass-extinction-capable meteors zapping through the veil of spacetime continuum towards a certain Pale Blue Dot spinning somewhere in the Laniakea supercluster, or technologically-advanced extraterrestrials planning to colonize said Pale Blue Dot... the latter is where the SETI computations step in, you know, to try and solve the pesky Fermi Paradox.!showerthoughts@lemmy.world