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| Personal background |
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Cynical Comments on Life
I'm just a guy, 17 years old and living in the suburbian hell of suv's, big houses, and snobbish attitudes that surrounds the thriving metropolis that is Chicago. I atted a high school that is being completely rebuilt ... just in time for my freshman year in college. All I get is to see my school become increasingly ghetto as parts are torn of with me inside.
Computers
I'd just like to say, that my computers deserve more recognition in this whole affair than myself. That being said, my computers are:
-P4 at 1.6 GHz
-256 MB RAM
-WIN 2K Pro
-PIII at 1000 MHz
-256 MB RAM
-WIN XP
-PIII at 800 MHz
-256 MB RAM
-WIN 98 Second Edition
-PIII at 450 MHz
-256 MB RAM
-WIN 98 Second Edition
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, being an extra terrestrial myself ... wait, I think I've said too much. On a more serous note, I think we will discover it when everyone on the planet decides to stop bieng naive about it and admit that extra terrestrial life must exist, and all start doing their part to find it. Benifits ... well, you've gotta believe that they would possess some pretty strange technology, I mean, it's almost impossible that they have developed exactly the same as us ... or even similarly, for that matter.
2. Transmit a beacon ... well, sure, it's a good thought, but realistically, the nearest star to us is more than four light years away and it doesn't even have any planets surrounding it. Any information we sent would be out of date, and rather pointless, if you ask me. But it would be fun, so why not? I'd have it say "We know you're out there, and someday we'll find you...". We should probably also include some passages from the writings of H.D. Thoreau, just for the sake of being hypocritical by telling people to simplify on a complex interstellar beacon.
3. I run SETI@home for my computer's sake. I know it seems strange, but computers need something to compete in, and SETI@home is just that. The ratings make my computer feel proud, because it's clock cycles have earned it a respectable spot in it's class as well as in the whole system. (I also run SETI@home because my computer is always on and I don't like wasting power, so I give it something to do, but my first reason is the main one)
Just for fun, I was gonna put a scrolling marquee here, but SETI won't let me do it. Darn. |
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