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Hello,
I'm originally from a small town called Harmony, in the state of Minnesota, USA. My interest in Astronomy is that of a novice, but as for computers, I find participating in SETI to be a great way to be part of something new, different, and definitely a greater pursuit. By that I mean to say it's something almost anybody can do to help advance science in a selfless way. The technology involved in a distributed environment is a remarkable accomplishment.
The first time I ran seti was perhaps close to six years ago- on a 486. I lost that account and eventually created a new one. When I started playing with Linux and first set up a hosting environment, I installed the seti client on my servers- something to do to make a little better use of them, for somebody at least.
Today, at any given time I have between 5 to 10 machines running the client, ranging from 233 Mhz to 2.6 Ghz. I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina about 2 years ago and thus, moved my account to be listed here. It's kind of fun for me to have machines in multiple coutries chugging away sending in work units.
Thank you,
Thomas Hutton |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I have very little doubt that life exists someplace other than our tiny planet- much the same as I have very little doubt in the existence of a higher power, God, or whatever one might choose to name it. Humanity should definitely dispense with fear and transmit some sort of beacon... such an activity, or thinking of the science to build such a transmitter, might lead to better ideas for searching. As for why I run Seti, I find both the Astronomy and the computing environment to be amazing. I'm happy to contribute. As for suggestions I'm too much of a novice to think of any... I think this is a wonderful project as it is. |
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