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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 09, 1999 @12:00PM from the and-I-thought-I-was-having-a-bad-day dept.

Foxman writes "Due to failures in coping with the overwhelming response from volunteers, the SETI@home project has been erroneously sending the same packets of radio data to its 500,000 participants." The scariest comment is the estimate that SETI@Home is using 8 tons of fossil fuel per hour.

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