👉🏻 IO.NET reminds me of a search for extraterrestrial civilizations project I came across before: SETI@home
SETI is a Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) program maintained by Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and other organizations. SETI@home is a distributed computing project that uses the Internet to integrate thousands of idle personal computers around the world to process astronomical data and search for extraterrestrial civilizations. Participants can download and run screen savers to allow their computers to process data fed back by radio telescope signals.