I am in my mid thirty’s and live in Newmarket Ontario, Canada. I am married to my wife Melissa and we have two beautiful children Heidi 4 and Peter 2.
I studied geo physics at Sir Sandford Fleming college in Lindsay back in 92. I have always been interested in science ever since I was a kid.
The majority of my work units were done with my PII 300 (o/c505mhz!). Lately we have upgraded our computers to a P3-866mhz with an average time per workunit of 12:05 and a P4-1.4ghz with an average of 6:09. The two computers share a DSL connection to the internet. Both are also running the command line version of SETI@Home 24/7.
I joined SETI about as soon as I heard about it in the Discovery channel back in June of 99. I think I am doing well considering that all of my units have been done on my own computers. I am now in the top 1% of all users! :)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It is unreasonable and arrogant to think that considering the vastness of the universe that we are the only life that it supports. As far as intelligent life, one can question if there is any on this planet let alone the universe. If we spent as much on science and exploration as we do on the military the world would be a much better place. Who knows maybe all other intelligent life on the other planets are extinct already and we are the last ones. Sort of like late bloomers in the celestial evolution of life. How odd that we evolved next to a very average unexciting sun in an obscure part of the universe.
How about this for a thought... Maybe our universe is a cheep little toy that a child has on a shelf in their bedroom. Kind of like an ant farm.
I am proud to be part of the most powerful distributed computing project in the history of mankind.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
