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| My name is Ben Franklin, I'm 15, I live in Manchester, UK, and I am currently at school. My favourite subject is science, and I am particularly interested in all things astronomical. My favourite ways of spending (wasting?) my spare time include playing about with my computer, surfing the net and watching TV! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I first heard about the SETI project on a TV program here in the UK called "Tomorrow's World" The project sounded like an excellent thing to donate my spare processor clock cycles to, however I didn't have a computer capable of running it on at the time. (33Mhz 386, Win 3.1, 4MB RAM, no internet connection!)I wanted to get involved, but couldn't. As I mentioned before, I am interested in Space exploration, extra-terrestrial life and other things spacey, but when we got a new PC six months ago (just after Christmas) I had forgotten about the project! I was browsing a download site yesterday for a new screensaver when the SETI project appeared, and I suddenly remembered it. I immediately downloaded the program, and it has now nearly finished it's first work unit.
I am pretty sure some other life form, intelligent or otherwise, exists elsewhere in the universe. There are millions and millions of suns, with many more planets orbiting them. The chances of only one of them being inhabitable is millions to one by that logic. However the chances of ever contacting any ET's out there is even slimmer, but it's worth a go. Personally I don't think we need to send out a beacon, because for the last 60 years or so we have been flooding space with radio and TV signals which could presumably be detected billions of miles away anyway. Besides, anyone who does pick the beacon up may not be able to understand it. I think this project is a brilliant idea, using spare processing power to do something useful. |
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