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| Personal background |
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My name is Richard (although I also answer to Raptor - my online handle since pre-internet days).
I live in New York City and I'm the office manager and entire computer staff of the sales office for a steel mill in England. I run SETI@home both @home and @work and have already reached my fifth anniversary. My next big target is the 10,000 work unit mark. I'm the founder of the Magere Lighthouse SETI team (which has all of three members!!!).
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 and it cost a lot more than any of the three computers I have at home right now. My main system is a Pentium 4 tower that I built myself.
If I think of something clever to write, I'll come back and edit this profile.
Edit: Wow, I wrote that years ago. My main computer now is a quad core. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Which would be more frightening - knowing that we are completely alone in the universe or knowing that the place is teeming with intelligent life?
I believe that the reality lies somewhere between those two extremes; that the universe does have life (aside from us) but probably not very much. Still, it's definitely worth looking for. The SETI project is relatively small and simple as scientific research projects go (at least in terms of direct cost and actual staff - the millions of volunteers worldwide do most of the heavy lifting). Given that, think about the impact on the entire world if we do discover intelligent life.
What would we want to ask them? Do you still have disease? How did you manage to avoid blowing yourselves up? Have you met other intelligent life before us? Is your world in any better shape than ours? Do you have mimes, too? :) |
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