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| Personal background |
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After the RC5-64 project was finished I left the DPC (Dutch Power Cows) for a while, but now I'm back :)
Some machine info:
I'm running the client on my main working PC, an AMD Athlon XP 1900. The machine is up when I'm home and not sleeping (which makes about 40 hours a week). I estimate Seti gets, on average, 40% to 60% of the CPU.
The other machine the client is running on is a P2 233. It's slow, but it's also up 24/7 and not doing much except fileserving and downloading. This makes the Seti client get around 90% of the CPU available.
In the picture, you can see the PC's that are running SETI. The blue one is the Athlon XP 1900 , the black one with the monitor on top the, you guessed it, P2 233. And no, that's not my normal setup.. the P2 233 is normally tucked away in a closet. In the picture I was reinstalling the OS wich, sadly, still is kinda impossible to do remotely (with Windows it's not possible anyways).
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life (EL) exists? Very probably. The chance of it NOT existing is insanely small. We are seeing more and more proof of it existing (like on Mars for example). And it's aso quite likely that we are going to see some proof of EL in a few years.
The question if there is intelligent EL is a completely different one. Yes, there probably is. But it's also possible that we are never going to see it. I'm fairly certain that we won't meet, or even speak with 'ET' in my lifetime.
As for SETI, the initiative is nice and there is a slim chance we might find something or someone interesting. But let's be real. Even if we can scan the whole sky, the chance of us detecting radio waves of other civilizations is extremly small. By the time any radio signal from a distant planet reaches us it has lost so much power that we won't notice it in the background noise.
Personally I think that if we are going to communicate with 'aliens', or just listen to them, it's going to be with a communication technoligy that's on 'the next level'. The speed of light is just too slow to get around with in the universe. Not to mention the immense powerloss radio signals suffer from when traveling billions of miles for years.
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