IT Management - Living in Queens, NY. Enjoy rollerblading, listening to pilots at JFK airport. Talk to people on my ham radio which is really interesting because I never know who would respond when I call CQ. My call sign is KC2GQA and I'm on LIMARC most of the time incause you are in town.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
How and When I became interested in SETI@home? Why I am helping?
I have heard about the SETI project SETI@home in 1998 when the project started. However I was affared to run it on my pc. I tought my proc. would have burn out.
I believe that extraterrestrial life exists. I also think that we will have a hard time proving it. The various SETI projects are only able to scan a tiny fraction of the space out there. I'm participating in the SETI@home project not because I feel that it has a large chance of success. I'm in this because I believe that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be one of the most important scientific discoveries ever made.
I feel that it is worth some effort on my part to help this project. It would just be an extra bonus if extraterrestrial life was found during my lifetime. I have had an interest in distributed computing projects for quite some time. Before SETI@home I didn't see any that I felt were worth the effort. An excellent project was cracking the U.S. DES (Data Encryption Standard). That was just proving the obvious. If you have enough computing power you can crack just about any mathematical encryption scheme. The SETI@home project allows all that spare CPU time to do something much more useful than running the idle loop!
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
