Personal background |
Hi,
My wife Behnaz and I are developers at a company in Redmond WA. We make Home Automation software. I just joined SETI@Home and have started running it on our machines at home while we're at work.
Here is the specs of the machines we are trying to get online. We'll be bringing more on line soon.
Dual 2.2GHz Xeon (Prestonia) - 1GB RAM - WinXP Pro
Dual 933MHz Pentium III - 512MB RAM - WinXP Pro
1 GHz Athlon - 512MB RAM - WinXP Pro
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Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I believe there is a high probability that extraterrestrial life does exist. The chances of finding I admit are pretty slim given the area of spacetime needed to be covered. However unless distant civilizations are planning to drop by and surprise us in the not too distant future, I think the only chance we have of locating remote intelligence is to commit large amounts of resources to the task.
In my view the human race should definitely allocate resources to establishing contact with other alien species. At the very least I would send basic information such as our location, and the time that the message was sent measured relative to the big bang. We should also send videos taken from sci-fi films - the ones that show us blowing whole worlds up - just in case they we're thinking of making a surprise attack ;)
I run SETI@Home because I have some pretty mean machines that sit idle all day and they may as well be put to some good use. Why do I keep them busy with SETI? Well it's a good question, the simple answer for me is that the SETI@Home project is well implemented and has good feedback to keep me interested. I do think though that for the benefit of humanity projects like Folding@Home are perhaps better suited to our needs right now. I say this because I believe that the resources could be better spent on ridding the world of starvation and disease. However I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling about the goals of the Folding@Home project, it seems a bit random and not as well though out as SETI@Home - so I'm waiting.
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