Observatorio Tecnológico de Hidalgo

My college laptop was slow. It didn’t help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and searching for aliens. The former was a study in patience—tracks spooled out at glacial speeds—the latter a (lazy) labor of love. Scientists had the genius idea of parceling out astronomical data to laptops where a screen saver could comb through them for alien radio signals.