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| Personal background |
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I'm currently enrolled at Penn State Worthington as a IST major. My interests lie primarily in computers, physics, and fixing small engines. When the lake ain't frozen I work at a marina in northeast Pennsylvania. I currently run SETI@home on 8 computers at home 24-7: Total processor power being 9000mhz w/ 2.24GB RAM. I currently crunch just shy of 23 work units per day, every day. I am making my way slowly to the top of the SETI@home program - and I can only hope that I am the lucky SOB that gets a copy of the 350k .sah file that changes the world. Some believe that computers, or wireless devices, or cloning, or AOL will change the world, but it will only take one .sah file to change the way everyone one on the planet thinks.
"Because up here at Possum Lodge, we have our own rules about technology." |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life must exist somewhere in the universe. SETI@home may or may not find signs of intelligent life, but it is a start. Finding a signal may just be a matter of time. How will the world react once life is found elsewhere? How will the life elsewhere react to us? Will the story be like "Contact" or "Independence Day?" Assuming a friendly race and an ability to communicate back and forth, the knowledge we could gain about the universe and technologies would be nothing short of amazing.
As for communicating with extra-terrestrials, I do believe that humans should construct a radio-beacon for other life to find. Our everyday radio signals are a weak beacon of sorts, but not one that will have any meaning to extraterrestrials nor help them communicate with us. Unfortunately, based on previous reports of alien abductions, ET will probably contact earth via CB radio - completely bypassing the SETI@home program.
"Breaker 1-9 for a radio check." |
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