Yes — but “useful” here mostly means (a) a ranked shortlist of follow-up targets and (b) …

… Yes — but “useful” here mostly means (a) a ranked shortlist of follow-up targets and (b) methods/software, not “we found aliens.” 1) A concrete shortlist to check with FAST After the automated ranking, they had ~20 million multiplets overall. Humans could only manually inspect about ~1000 of the top-ranked ones, because that part is slow and expert-driven. From that manual review, they produce sky positions + frequency ranges to reobserve. Because Arecibo collapsed in December 2020, they note that FAST (China’s 500m telescope) is the only one with enough sensitivity for this particular follow-up, and they were granted 23 hours of observing time, enough for 92 candidate reobservations. That’s a pretty tangible “endgame”: years of data reduction → a few dozen-to-~100 highest-priority rechecks. 2) A measured answer to “how sensitive was SETI@home, really?” A lot of SETI searches can claim very impressive “instrument sensitivity,” but the practical sensitivity is limited by what actually makes it through your filtering and what you can realistically follow up. …