November 30, 2009

Man fired from job at Higley Unified School District for downloading the free SETI@home computer software, in hopes of finding alien lifeforms in space, on every computer in school district, causing up to $1.6 million in unnecessary energy resources.

SETI@home is a free program for idle computers, that uses idle computers to examine information collected data by radio telescopes in hopes of finding intelligent life in the universe.

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