“Eras don’t end in a day, they slowly fade away,” American astronomer and SETI@home director Eric Korpela writes after cleaning out the UC Berkeley lab of the now defunct crowdsourced E.T. intelligence search project in its community forum. The “bittersweet milestone” included throwing out the Sun Enterprise series servers that handled SETI@home’s databases and web traffic. “We had hoped they would end up in a museum somewhere, but unfortunately interest in SETI@home’s hardware has faded even faster than the project did.”