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The starship Enterprise can scan the entire surface of a planet in one second and report back that there are signs of life. But for those of us who don’t live in the world of sci-fi, searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence is a much more involved process; the computational power required is immense. So immense, in fact, that the scientists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) developed a distributed application that ran on Mac and Windows called SETI@Home. This application allows us non-scientists to contribute the processing power of our machines to help SETI find intelligence in the stars.