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Project "A" was to try and get our 1msq patch of lawn to grow. Sad to report I failed. Too rainy in England at this time of year. Project "B" was to renovate the kitchen. I tore out the old units with gusto, two weeks ago... well, the bath makes a better wash-up anyway.
So when I told my wife Karma I wanted to help look for extra-terrestrials, she was, well, you know.
But the lovely London lass has actually got quite up for it. Our first data unit was from new year's eve 2000, 23:54, when we were snogging in St Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, to the tune of premature fireworks and a billion Italians singing harmonious tunes. A fabulous new year venue. With my pidgeon physics, and Karma's wonderful imagination, we have conjured up our own extra-terrestrials singing to us during that new year party.
Data unit #2, sadly, was while I was at a conference in Swindon, UK, and Karma was in the office.
All the best SETI team,
James & Karma Ockenden
London, England |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Once you've seen it, SETI@home is too neat and too imaginative not to run, there is nothing negative about it.
Actually, I wanted to run a genome@home programme (twisting proteins?) but it was really buggy and one of the FAQ's was "why isn't XX as good as SETI@home?", so I figured to try it.
You may well have lots of competition for PC time coming up. Is it possible to protect your idea in any way? too late for a patent... will this become the future of computing, will people at home buy faster computers than they need and sub-let their processors, like people who generate their own power and sell excess back to the utility company? While I love the idea of an ET search, I could not resist an e-mail from, say, a local charity, asking for processor time for their database services and SETI would have to take a back-burner. What do you think? |
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