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Tom A. Trottier, MBA, CTM
Mr. Trottier is a creative, problem-solving information management professional with over 25 years experience in Canada, the USA and Saudi Arabia as manager, project leader, analyst, modeller, programmer and
consultant.He has worked in all aspects of systems development and implementation, from methodology and strategy through data and system
models, functional and performance testing, implementation and parallel running. He has worked with mainframes and PCs, client server and
web applications. As a manager, he has led a number of projects, planning, scheduling, supervising and doing presentations and reports to clients, committees and professional groups. He has attained the Toastmaster's public speaking award, "Competent Toastmaster"
(CTM).
[b]758 Albert StOttawa ON Canada
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SETIguru@Abacurial.com
1 613 860-6633
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Certainly extraterrestrial life exists. It's a BIG universe.
Will we discover it? Probably, within then next hundred years. However, we may not be able to understand its communications for another century.
Benefits: bigger "world view." Perhaps new technology. Maybe even trade eventually, tho I think info will be the main exchange. Eventually: survival of the species beyond the life of our earth.
Dangers: learn stuff that destroys us before we learn to control it. E.G. firewater
2. No beacon. Safer to listen & learn. Maybe a beacon in a few centuries if listening doesn't work.
3. I run SETI to help discover more about the universe.
SETI is a grand effort to use idle cpu cycles in a worthy cause, one with a huge possible upside.
Suggestions:
- Use Athlon and Intel special instructions to speed calculations
- Support scheduling of silent dialup to wee hours (as well as flashing icon)
- Display all our latest stats in the screen saver screen & "Thanks"
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