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I'm a commercial photographer/illustrator living in San Rafael, Marin county, just north of San Francisco. My wife and two daughters put up with a great deal of 'tech talk' and hand waving from me but still enjoy the evenings when I drag them out to look at meteors and planets.
This project is a great idea and I hope they spell my name right on the white paper.........
david bishop/san francisco |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) Either way it's a fantastic concept.
2) We're already a pretty 'noisy' planet, why not up the volume?
3) I run SETI@home when the computers aren't busy with my daily work. That means evenings and weekends. I've always enjoyed the sense of being part of something greater than just myself.
The project is fascinating, but I don't understand enough about the search algorithms. What if the people who wrote it discover that ' Ooops, we should be looking THIS way' and we have to start all over? Is this a legitimate concern? I'll be reading up on this regardless.
My only suggestion is that those in the know should make every effort to keep those not in the know up to speed with what's going on. I've discovered one of the very most difficult things is to know something really well and then discover that I have to 'relearn' it in a way that lets me explain it to someone else. There's a HUGE gap in the science that's done and the science we read about, and I'd like to see more efforts to close that gap. |
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