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Hi,
I am currently working at an IT-Provider for Banks, doing a lot of Java related stuff, but nothing really thrillin.... A year or so ago I bumped into SET@home and immediatelly was fascinated about the idea of having thousands of computers number crunching - so I joined the project.
My hobbies are - guess Science-Fiction, Music and of cause Computers and programming them.
For any more information on me please visit my homepages
http://www.javaworks.de and http://www.matzes-linux-box.com (on which I run SETI@HOME)
Ahhh, one more thing... what kind of machine am I running seti@home on:
AMD Athlon, 750 MHz, 256 MB on an ASUS Board, running SuSE Linux 7.3
connected to the internet via DSL 780 kb downstream 128 kb upstream |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I more definitelly believe that there is "someone" elseout there. However they probably will control when we will find them, because I am sure they found us already. They will probably wait with contacting us until mankind has learned to live together peacefully
2. Transmitting a beacon is useless, becausewe do it already - think about all the radio and tv-broadcasts which are transmitted around our globe daily.I think the movie "contact" made it very clear - anything we transmit via radio waves will "land" somewhere in the universe and it will be understood.
3.I run seti@home because I am fascinated by the fact of being a part of a worldwide organisation searching for life. I also want to use the computing power idling most of the time under my table. I think seti@home is one of the most fascinating and best working distributed computing project of all times - with the seti@home the "network really is the computer" ! Any suggestions, well I would love it if the linux (X) client is maintained as well as the windows client. |
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