Editing SETI@home (section)

==Scientific research==
The two original goals of SETI@home were:
* to do useful scientific work by supporting an observational analysis to detect intelligent life outside [[Earth]]<ref name="acmanderson">{{Cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=David P. |last2=Cobb |first2=Jeff |last3=Korpela |first3=Eric |last4=Lebofsky |first4=Matt |last5=Werthimer |first5=Dan |date=November 2002 |title=SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/581571.581573 |journal=Communications of the ACM |language=en |volume=45 |issue=11 |pages=56–61 |doi=10.1145/581571.581573 |s2cid=15439521 |issn=0001-0782 |access-date=September 19, 2022 |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172330/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/581571.581573 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* to prove the viability and practicality of the "volunteer computing" concept<ref>{{Cite web |title=S.E.T.I. - 100000 pr |url=https://sites.google.com/site/scoemiche/s-e-t-i |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=sites.google.com |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920171704/https://sites.google.com/site/scoemiche/s-e-t-i |url-status=live }}</ref>

The second of these goals is considered to have succeeded completely. The current [[BOINC]] environment, a development of the original SETI@home, is providing support for many computationally intensive projects in a wide range of disciplines.

The first of these goals has to date yielded no conclusive results: no evidence for ETI signals has been shown via SETI@home. However, the ongoing continuation is predicated on the assumption that the observational analysis is not "ill-posed." The remainder of this article deals specifically with the original SETI@home observations/analysis. The vast majority of the sky (over 98%) has yet to be surveyed, and each point in the sky must be surveyed many times to exclude even a subset of possibilities.