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I've been running Seti@Home since the Beta's.. On Linux, Solaris, and the occasional Windows Box. I'm fairly sure I've used more electricity/CPU time on Seti than for work.
As a Masters student in Computer Science at UNLV, I have the opportunity to take some Grad level Physics classes, the latest one I just completed was the Physics of the Interstellar Medium. I love the look on people's faces when I tell them I take grad level Astrophysics classes!
Other than Astronomy, my hobbies include racing Mazda RX-7's with the high-revving mavel of engineering, the Rotary Engine. I run rotarynews.com, and do marketing research for MazdaUSA for the next generation of Rotary Powered cars. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do think ET's exist. I am unsure if we will find them using radio. I hope the Seti@Home project continues to expand the search into other frequencies.
The dangers of such a discovery include the jolting of religous dogma, and the incapability of many people in the world to comprehend just what extraterrestrial life means for human existance, beleifs. I would suspect that after contact is made, a long movement will be taken to non-creationist religions like Budhism. (this is not to say existing religions will cease, but the reduction of religions that mainly focus on the betterment on humans, and not the worshop of deities and creationism, will happen)
Humans should transmit a beacon, but it should not be in binary, it should bin an a base-4 system, GTAC, (binary consists of on/off, one zero... simply add 2 more levels in there to represent DNA) We should transmit the human genome. If life out there is DNA based, they might be able to reconstruct the genome into a human.
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