I am born 1980 and live in Germany(Berlin). I've started with seti@home in the jear 2000. Iheard about seti from a friend and thought a while about it and decidet to sign up after 2 packages i've tried out to calculate. But after about 24 packets and a reintalling of my system i forgot seti...i never thought about it until january 2003. I saw running seti at a mac - i was shocked. I've forgotten the seti online project for about 2 jears - 2 jears without activity for seti online. The first i thought: i have to go online get newest version of seti and burn out all pc's standing around at home. My first target was now to break the 100 package barrier and then 250 and if possible thousands of them. I hope i can upgrade my system sometimes to get faster and faster while calculating the seti stream.
2003 there are 4 systems on the run for me 1 day and night and the other 3 temporarily - i hope this increases the possibility of get the stream finished before i will die.
If you see my profile please mail me so i never forget to let my systems running seti@home.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it is possible that i calculate NSA Data.
With the seti@home screensaver i thought it is much more effective to glow out my processor to find extraterestial intelligence than to use it for a fuckin' marqee screensaver. But overall i think that it is possible to find some extraterrestial intelligence and if not there is nowbody who could say we dont tried to find it. Possible we use the wrong alghorithms or we are to genious or to stupid to find the intelligence we are searching for but we will try to find it and thats the couse we are all using this little program for the probability of finding it.
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