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| Personal background |
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I first heard of SETI in my first year of University in 1999 when I was asked by a friend to try it out and help our Acadia Team. We used it as a way to test our laptops they gave us and see how fast each of us could crunch data units. Needless to say I got hooked right away with SETI and now run the command line version from 3 computers and looking to add it to still another one.
I am an amateur astronomer at heart and own two telescopes. My latest one can be plugged into my laptop so that I can punch up star charts and track any celestial object in the night time sky. Star gazing is really a great hobby to get into, and even if you do not have a big telescope, a blanket and an open field are all you need. There are also a ton of online resources you can look at to find what’s up in your part of the world. Sky News is what I like.
Though I am not in any science degree at Acadia, and only taking history, when I become a teacher I plan on starting an astronomy club in the school in which I teach. I think it’s important that we try to understand as much as we can about what lies outside this world, as our own, at the rate in which we destroy it daily will not last us forever.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI is fun for those of us that like to help out on big projects and feel like we are doing something special. I know of several other programs that do this as well, one for cancer research. The quote ‘if there’s no other life then what’s here on earth, then it’s an awful big waste of space’ holds true to me. There has to be something else out there. This can even fit into religious texts as well when it is said ‘God made the Heavens and the Earth’. Who is to say that he only created life on this earth and not others?
With SETI, people may think you are a nerd, but when they start asking questions about SETI then you know they are at least interested.
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