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Visit my webpage at http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umheint0/ , it's getting updated so then it'll be more about me and not my homework ;-)
If you want to find me, get on Gamespy Arcade for Operation Flashpoint. I'm under the name CDN_NATO[GEN]Dante. I love that game bigtime. It appeases my appetite for death and destruction without having to bludgeon homeless people to death with large objects. Ha.
I live for music of any genre.
About me... Well, I'm 19, and attend the University of Manitoba, going for a Commerce degree. I don't study the sciences or anything like that (are you surprised? You should be.) If you doubt my intelligence, I tutor introductory and intermediate Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, and Algebra, without having studied them since high school. I have an IQ of 137. I enter into philosophical, moral, and general opinion discussion and debate because I know I can win and I know I'm right -- most of the time at least, because I can admit when I'm wrong. I can be anything I want. Why Commerce? That's where the money is. Right now, I'm stuck as a Lifeguard / Swimming Instructor, while moonlighing as an accountant-in-training for Manitoba Hydro, and a mobile DJ on weekends.
Delta Upsilon For Ever!!!
HighIQSociety.Org For Ever!!! |
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I've got an Athlon XP 1600 with 512mb DDR ram running 24/7. I can get through about 3-5 clusters a day, depending on how the machine feels. That's crazy compared to my old AMD 133 (100Mhz clock)! I also have a Duron 1200 with 256MB DDR, that runs about 8 hours a day. It doesn't go quite as fast, but hey, it gets the job done.
In any case, i'm just doing this, since my cpu time would otherwise go to waste. You may be looking at my ranking and wondering why I'm so low, when my computer is so fast. Well, my old one was too slow to run SETI@home, so I didn't. My new one most certainly can.
As for my participation at all; what the hell. If people want to look for E.T.'s, let them. The odds are in their favour for finding some form of life, and this is the best we can do right now.
Frankly, I don't think that any species capable of returning any message to the broadcasts we make would waste their time on such primitive technology. They would be capable of transmitting data thousands of times faster than light, and wouldn't waste their time on such slow data transmission methods, and interpreting what is basically static noise.
Likewise, I can basically guarantee they will NOT be carbon-based lifeforms. They won't resemble us, act like us, or having anything in common with humanity, except perhaps self-awareness. They will have different methods of communication, if any at all, and we will never be able to transmit any idea of any form to them whatever. Imagine the unimaginable, and even that won't be what we encounter. Ever. It will be even worse and unique than what is found in a New York subway station.
Do I think there are E.T.'s? Yes.
Will we ever recognize them? No. We can't even find intelligent life on our own rock, let alone elsewhere.
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists is that it hasn't tried to contact us." |
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