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I am 60 and live in Denver. I am retired from supervising a small bridge design group for the Colorado Department of Transportation. I like to read, sing, play the Tuba, and do techie work for a small theater group.
I find the concept of SETI@Home interesting, both as a social phenomenon, experiment in masssively parallel processing, and potential astronomical investigation. The search for extraterrestial intelligence is also interesting, but is not anywhere as sure a payoff in the short run as the seemingly side issues. |
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1. Sure it exists, but I don't know if it is intelligent or if we will ever find it. The benefits are most likely in the search itself which will at the very least get us thinking about our place in the universe, a process which I think is a "very good thing".
2. Our existance slowly sends signals and information about us into the universe anyway, much like the information paleontologists garner about past humankind. I doubt the information we deliberately send which would be colored by our "world view" would be more interesting or revealing than the information that we inadvertantly send.
3. I like the idea of doing something potentially useful using the wasted computing power while my computer waits for me to press a key. It sounds like the new directions of using SETI@home to analyze radio telescope data for additional astronomical investigation is already going where I would like SETI@home to go. |
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