Profile: Jeffrey Van Etten

Personal background
Well I am from New Jersey, USA and I am currently living in the London, England. I am 27 years old and working for Transport for London as a GIS Specialist for the London Bus Initiative where I spend most of the day making maps and digitising routes and programming new applications. I enjoy playing football (soccer), hill walking, rambling (if it is different?!?!), and seeing how many data units I have completed...slowly getting there!

Well after being SETI User of the day, I decided to post some answers to a few questions. Currently I am running SETI on 2 P4 1.5Ghz, 1 P4 1.8Ghz, 1 P3 1.0Ghz, and 1 P2 400Mhz machines. The average result takes between 5 hours on the fastest machine to 12 hours on my slowest. I am using the command-line version of SETI along with SETIBuf.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do believe that there is life somewhere out there. Space is far to complex for us to be the only living beings (as we understand living beings to be) out there. I think that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will happen by accident and someone will stumble across the finding and not realise what they have found until a couple of years later.

I started using SETI when I was doing my Masters at Purdue University and after a long break from not using it (almost a year) decided to try and start submitting more data results after an article was published that I read about SETI here in the UK!
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