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| Personal background |
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Greetings fellow earthlings!
I'm finishing up a PhD in physics of all things, and have been interested in the
seti project for some time. While I specialize in Atmospheric physics, rather than
Astro, I still get a kick out of pondering about what's out there -- past our atmosphere. The entire reason why I became
a physicist in the first place was because of early interests in Cosmology.
Now that I spend most of my time trying to figure out lightning, and am rarely afforded the
luxury of thinking much past 20 or so km from the earth's surface, I figured I could
at least throw some idle CPU cycles into the game.
I've been an avid Linux enthusiast for over 6 years now, and have been a Unix convert
for well over 10. I could go on and rant about the advantages of open-source here,
and make snide comments about the OS most people use...but I'll spare you!
When I first started SETI@home, I thought I was really cool because I had
like 5 computers running the client, and the "BogoMIPS" added up to almost three
thousand. Well, since 1999 processor speeds have been ever increasing, now I still
only have about 5 or 6 computers running the client, but now EACH of them have
about 3000 BogoMIPS!
Live long and prosper,
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think there are ET's out there, yes. I think Einstien was right, though,
the speed of light is constant -- and a thing having mass can't be accelerated
to this speed without becoming increasingly massive, and hence requiring more and
more energy to get there. So, I doubt we'll ever meet ET in our lifetime, but
there's still the hope that we might find some signal from "out there."
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