| Personal background |
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A computer student bored with a computer :)
Am about to go in the bath now so can't write much...
Bye byes |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, perhaps extraterrestrial life does exist. We do not know, and therefore cannot prove it either way. If life exists on earth, then why would nowhere else in the universe have life? Humans will probably never come into contact with other lifeforms, due to the fact that they may exist several million lightyears away, a long way to travel. The dangers of findling E.T.life would possibly include war with other worlds, not just countries, but the benefits would be that the world as a whole would be united.
2. Humans should transmit a beacon for others to find, it should consist of a energy wave that cannot be found anywhere else in the known universe. This will rule out the possibilities of any other lifeform just passing it off as a natural occurance. It sghould not contain data, as data is useless without the information on how to process it. We could send out what we think is information, but to another lifeform who will most likely not understand, it will be useless.
3. SETI@home is run as a background process on my main desktop machine, and also on other machines I own. I do not need all the processing power I own, so wish to find aliens with it :p Whenever I need to perform a processor intensive task, I will shut SETI@home off, but if I don't need the power, why not run it?
Suggestions...
More precompiled binaries please, for Linux. For example, running SETI@home on an Intel Pentium 1 machine requires me to use the i386 binaries, when I could be using i586 binaries, maybe running a little faster. I hae a sneaky suspicion that data processed isnt about aliens, rather it is a huge distributed computing effort for researching nuclear weapons... muuwwahahahaha, or maybe not... |
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