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I'm a 41 year old computer consultant from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've set a modest network here at home -where I work usually- with an "old" Pentium II 350MHz running Linux as a firewall/router, one Pentium III 450MHz for the DMZ web server, another one as a Domino and DB2 server, my wife's PII 350MHz, and my own AMD Athlon 800MHz with 512MB RAM for development. I run a couple of web sites here, mostly to do customer "showroom" tours for IBM products and architectures.
So, there's plenty of idle CPU power to engage in this project. I've set up the command line version in the firewall, DMZ, and server, and the screensaver one in the others. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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As many others said, it will be arrogant for us to think we are the only form of life in the Universe. So, I believe there could be life somewhere else. But I also believe that we WILL NOT FIND any signal coming from the outer space. The odds to find forms of life that evolved much like we did (at least, in order to broadcast the particular kind of signals we're listening here) seems pretty low for me. If our technology is just a fraction too primitive or too advanced for other civilization, we miss the chance.
More, IF (a big if) we come in touch with another civilization, why should we act different as our past "discoveries"? What happened when Columbus found the new world natives? And they were pretty much alike... What about color, religion, education level...? If we are willing to embrace extraterrestrial forms of life with nothing more than a peaceful and loving attitude...why are we so nasty with "our own" people? If we can live in a building without knowing the next door guy, why are we looking to the stars to found someone else?
So -you're asking-, why do I stress my CPUs 24x7, generate heat and consume power running seti@home??? Because it MUST be done. Because it's like many other mankind dreams, where we satisfy our curiosity, our desire to reach new heights, our need to explore this huge and endless Universe we have.
And because the screensaver crunching data and looking for signals reminds me not to forget to listen to other more "terrestrial" signals, coming from places much, much near than Tau Ceti...
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