Here is a good oppurtunity to get some free recognition, scroll down to the bottom and give a thumbs up to the comment that mentions Astroids@Home and it will remain on top of the other comments so more people can see it.

http://news.yahoo.com/search-near-earth-asteroids-needs-speed-boost-114855823.html[/url]

150 years to characterize their materials ??!! Darn, I was hoping to buy a nice one and start mining it sometime this year. I'm so gonna click that thumbs up every day.

It's a shame so much CPU power is totally wasted on projects like SETI that have zero chance of ever achieving their goal while useful projects like this one receive so little. And even if SETI does find an ET there will be zero benefit from it.