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I am from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. I'm a Unix system administrator for a local company. I'm 48 years old, my hobbies include astronomy (rank amateur), computers and networking. I like to write html pages the old fashioned way, by hand. Makes it much more interesting to say the least. :-)
If you visit our homepage you can browse through our pond pictures, photograph album or genealogy page. We have approximately 500 pictures online. Most will probably bore you to tears. If you truly get bored, you can click over to one of the two webcams we have and see how truly boring I am.
Currently I have 10 computers that are processing Seti, they range from a pentium 120 up to a P4 1.6 ghz machine. 4 are running Linux, the others range from Windows 95 to Windows 2000.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The odds point towards us not being the only life in the universe. Just look how diverse life is on earth and you'll see what I mean. Life exists at the poles, deep underground and deep within the depths of the oceans. From temperatures far below zero to the heat of the smoking vents in the depths of the ocean. The odds of humans being the only living beings in the universe are very remote.
I believe the question on whether or not we should transmit a beacon for others to find is a moot point. Ever since Marconi transmitted the first radio signal we have been broadcasting our presence in the Universe. If it is decided to send a deliberatte signal, it should be a simple signal. Math would be the universal language of any intelligent species and that is what the signal should be composed of. Transmitting words would not be worthwhile because words are abstract things and without a rosetta stone, they would be difficult, if not impossible, for another species to decipher.
I run Seti to help further science and our knowledge of the universe. Besides, I've always been fascinated by the idea that other intelligent species may be wondering the same thing we are. "Are we alone in this vast universe?". I don't think we are alone and I'm helping in my own small way to prove that we aren't alone.
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