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| Personal background |
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I'm 49 and an IT Consultant/IT Manager.
In a previous job, I used to be able to 'use up' spare time on various processors to run SETI@home and at one time was clocking up a few hundred work units a day. Now I only have my home PCs (1 XP, 2 Linux), I only process a unit every few days. Still, every little helps.
I like looking at the stars and have a small Newtonian 'scope (114mm). I'd like to do some imaging (look for QCUIAG on the Net) but currently don't have the time or money. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think there must be life out there, since I'm not egotistical enough to beleive we are the first, last or only intelligence to develop. However, I can't explain why if it's out there, we haven't encountered it already, unless they have a 'hands off' policy for under-developed life forms.
In a sense, we are already transmitting 'beacons' since we've been blasting radio waves out for nearly a century. Of course, most of it would be hard to detect, but a suitably advanced intelligence shouldn't have a problem with that.
I run SETI@home on the off-chance that there is something to find. As I said above, "every little helps" even if it's only a few units a week! |
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