Profile: Wintrowski

Personal background
I am an alien being, originally from the planet
Karkag in the Alpha Centauri system. I have been
on Earth since 1980.

In a freak accident whilst testing a new space
ship design, the anti-gravity drive overloaded
and caused a micro-fracture in space-time.
Combined with the overloading drive's high
rate of quantum flux, the micro-fracture
expanded at a rate proportional to the
drive's increasing rate of neutrino decay,
causing a localised time-dilation effect
around my ship.

Unfortunately, the secondary sub-light
Higgs-Boson accelerator short circuited
and induced a third rate, fast fission
reaction between the neutrons generated
by the micro-fracture, and the positively
charged protons on my ship's hull. This,
along with the micro-fracture's expansion,
caused a space translocation effect in
accompaniment with the time-dilation,
thus transporting me to the Sol System
in an almost instantaneous manner.

Such a phenomenon has never been witnessed
by my people. It is my duty to try and
contact them, sending the data my ship
recorded so they might harness this new
phenomenon and send another ship to bring
me home.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
SETI and SETI@home are my only real chances
of contacting my people. We have been
transmitting signals into space for hundreds
of years, so it is only a matter of time
before the SETI effort picks up on them.
Although, a modification of their equipment
is probably necessary to pick up the Ultra
Wide Band transmissions, modulated on the
fourth harmonic.


I run SETI@home in addition to my own
customized radio telescope array, with
signal processing done on my cluster
of 5000 dual Pentium 4 workstations,
each running FreeBSD. All of the software
is custom written in Fortran, making use
of the MPI library for parallelism.


Clearly, my own setup is nothing compared
to the massive distributed parallelism
achieved by the SETI@home project. I
feel it is my duty to help the SETI@home
project as they are attempting to accomplish
a goal similar to my own.


When I contact my people, I promise
to share all of our knowledge of space
travel with the people of Earth. My
people owe you a great debt of
gratitude for welcoming me to your
planet, and helping my efforts to
return home.

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