UoG Alumni - Environmental Engineering 04. Started using Seti@Home while at Guelph. Work in the air quality field ensuring that we have 'clean' air following the principles of CATNAP. (Cheapest Available Technology Narrowly Avoiding Prosecution).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
The statistics are quite convincing that somewhere out there, a planet exist with the condition to sustain life, or at least the "life" that we know. I'm no biologist but there are surely other catagories of self sustaining organisms that could exist. Because our science is mainly anthropocentric we may encounter something completely unexpected.
"Humans have no right in space until we learn to live in peace on earth."
Well back in 2003 I thought computers were over powered for the everyday user. Now it's 2006 and computer technology has supposedly doubled several times over. We've reached a Ghz barrier and multicores seem to be the new path. This hopefully will greatly increase the idle time available to the project as we start getting carried away with 8 core systems!
Suggestions: Get large organizations to install the software on networked computers that remain on all day, tons-O-free CPU idle time. Or...turn the darn things off.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
