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A McKenzie Send message Joined: 20 Jan 14 Posts: 1 Credit: 41,123 RAC: 0 |
Hello all! I'm a graduate student working on my masters thesis on the topic of extraterrestrial contact. I'm interested in how people who run the SETI@home program got interested in the idea of contacting ETs. Anyone who is willing to be interviewed (by phone or email) please contact me and we can chat about your engagement with this project. Thanks! |
Rolf Send message Joined: 16 Jun 09 Posts: 114 Credit: 7,817,146 RAC: 0 |
Hello A McKenzie Maybe the different user profiles could help you. I did'nt read each profile but i'm sure many of them explain why their owner joined SETI. Rolf |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
The humans here have as many reasons to run this program as there are differences between the individuals in the species. Welcome to the forms! |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
SETI@home is the scientific experiment that most excites the imagination of people worldwide. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
SETI@home is the scientific experiment that most excites the imagination of people worldwide. Hi A Mckenzie! I adooooore SETI! Ask me anything you want! :) I know we would all love to be "the one" that processed the task that proved we were not the most intelligent creatures in the universe... :) But it wouldn't matter if that glory went to another - because it's a team effort after all. We would all be proud of the part we'd played in it! SETI was the first to pull together people from all over the world in such a collaborative way. It remains true to the founding spirit of the world wide web to provide free and open access to information and the furthering of scientific knowledge. If it was being set up today I believe it still would be. The ethos behind it is uncontaminated by self-serving interest groups and political machinations. For many the scores add an additional element of competition, because we are a competitive lot after all, but as it benefits the project, it can't be bad! The message boards are a mixture of fun, sorrow, technical support, education and mind expanding dialogue delivered in varying degrees of polite monologues :) If you enjoy the thrill of being impaled on a URL then this is the place to be!!! :) They make no difference per se to the project itself, but it bonds it's participants together under the same sky where we look up and find it hard to believe - in this vast cosmos of ours - that we could truly be alone. And what Mr Kevvy said below :) but I haven't done one yet - newbie on tricycle you see :) |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I second that..... |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
...but I haven't done one yet... I second that..... :) I'm not very good when it comes to thinking about me :/ tend to go a bit blank. :) |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Why do I do Seti? That's complicated, lets see, something to do, I like PCs, heats the house, I like radio and optical astronomy, etc, etc, etc... The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Hello A McKenzie My profile is a pretty good summary. Any additional questions, feel free to PM. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Roy Skoglund Send message Joined: 27 Feb 14 Posts: 26 Credit: 233,738 RAC: 0 |
I'm a student in telecommunications engineering, and I'm intrigued by the prospect of other intelligent lifeforms. The SETI@home project seemed like a reasonable choice. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
It was my first BOINC project. Now they are 7 plus three which ended. So I am still doing it. Tullio |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
I got hooked watching the SETI Screen Saver run on my friend's computers. So, now I run it on mine. TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Francis Noel Send message Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 452 Credit: 142,832,523 RAC: 94 |
Many reasons. Not so much to find ET.. but Because I have resources available taht would otherwise go unused. Because it is a genuine and valid radio-astronomy project and I can help. but mostly Because I want to make a difference and make things better for humanity. My ordinary life wont make that happen, but by participating in S@H I believe I am making things better by furthering human knowledge. S@H is real science. It produces results: hydrogen density was mapped from its data, micro black-holes were theorized and proven (Astropulse) and then S@H spawned BOINC. S@H advanced radio astronomy, distributed computing, probably cryptography and other stuff by motivating GPU use outside of graphics, got the public interested in science again, made incredible resources available to other real and valid projects, allowed many of those projects to be possible in the first place while operating on a budget that would not have covered the coffee and donuts for the project that designed your MP3 player. Go ahead and compare the science per dollar that happend through S@H to anything else being done in the world... And I Helped. I will be with the project for as long as I can because it matters. mambo |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
Because I want to make a difference and make things better for humanity. My ordinary life wont make that happen, but by participating in S@H I believe I am making things better by furthering human knowledge. S@H is real science. It produces results: hydrogen density was mapped from its data, micro black-holes were theorized and proven (Astropulse) and then S@H spawned BOINC. Now there's another profile that could use an update... that's inspirational. "PIGS IN SPAAAACE!"... er... not so much :^) |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Because I do. My Profile is enough info. +1 With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Because I do. My Profile is enough info. +3 |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
make things better for humanity. My Sir I disagree with your statement. I believe that the reason that all of us are here is because you and others like you, now and all through time do what you do every day. You pay your taxes, you keep the laws, you make small children smile and feel safe. You should not say that you are not important to the big picture. With out people like you and me, and all the others who put in the time and effort to live every day, there would be no Seti project, there would be no town, city, country, or even human race. If you only once had some one say, "You made my day" you are important. I am glad that I know that you are alive, and I am willing to bet that there are great many other people in your life who are able to say the same thing. I'll even say that the whole human race would have reason to say the same thing. With people like you, me, or the others in here, the future looks as bright as it can ever be. I have read that there have been millions of other kinds of animals that have come and gone on this world, but we are here now. the reason for all of this is because of individuals who living as we do, make things better for humanity. |
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