I started running SETI after a friend of mine nagged me for a few weeks. Then it became an obsession for packet count so I fired up 19 computers (this was back when PII300 was new) and ran about 2,000 packets. Of course my packet time was crap so I settled down to 2-3 computers to try and bring my packet time down from 20hrs ea. It is all about numbers, nerds and numbers :-)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I dunno if extraterrestrial life exists. If they do, maybe they'll join our SETI group...
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