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Hi:
I'm an old git (English, 50 in 2002) and simply decided (when the project was first advertised) to let my computer do something useful !
I run a single machine at home, originally a 300MHz PII, but recently, due to a catastrophic head crash I now have an XP2200 which flies !!!
I am what companies laughingly refer to as Early Voluntary Redundant (Scrapped), and fill my spare time contructing web sites for bands and a small music agency.
At least SETI got its moneys worth out of my old machine ! - I leave them on full time, and just do a re-boot twice a day to clear caches and leaky memory.
Hey ho, It must be time for the pub !!!!!! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think the problems of time and dimension far more spectulative than the thought of someone picking-up such a weak, technologically backward, signal and then bothering to reply to it !!
After all, in 2002, Morse is no longer taught even to Military radio operators !
I regard the project simply as an interesting exercise in shared (big style)computing, plus possible unknown benefits (theoretical) from examination / re-examination of all the recorded data. Just because we can't see anything doesn't mean we are (currently) using the correct algorhythms.
I look forward to the next generation of 'opt-in' shared computing, BUT I would be seriously pissed off if I discovered (for example) that a genome type project was been used commercially to sell-on results !!! |
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