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| My name is Marty Rice and I am 31 years old. I am originally from Kansas, where I was raised out in the country on a family-operated farm. When I was about 12 years old I discovered computers, such as they were at the time, and quickly became very interested in them. I spent much of the subsequent 6 years learning all I could and buying my first two computers (both Apple's). From there I went to Kansas State University where I studied and received my degree in electrical engineering. When I graduated I moved to Ohio and I have lived here since then. I now work for a leading instrumentation company where we design some of the world's most sensitve measurement instruments for testing semiconductor wafers. In addition to this, I also write software for the Palm operating system, am an avid runner (marathon PR: 3:22:58), and I recently became a father! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe there is certainly life elsewhere in the universe, but I am not as sure we will ever be able to productively communicate with others. I do not believe ET has visited Earth. I would absolutely love it if we could merely detect and understand a transmission from someone else in the universe. I think the effect on Earthlings would be very positive, and I would hope that it would encourage more resources to be put into space exploration and study.
I'm sure Earth is transmitting our share of noise into the universe and perhaps someone will eventually receive it. I run SETI@home on three computers, mostly around-the-clock because I think it is a wonderful endevour.
My only suggestion is I think it would be neat if you could view statistics based on geography, so, for example, I could see how many data units are being processed by people in my region vs others. |
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