Profile: Jim Cox


Personal background
I am just starting out with SETI@Home and after many years of procrastination, pursuing my interest in astronomy.

I feel that SETI@Home is a great proof of concept for the potential benefits of distributed computing and hope that in the future other distributed computing projects used for more Earth-bound issues such as medical research or environmental modeling can become as popular as SETI@Home.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Given the vastness of the Universe, I am certain there is life out there.

If we don't blow ourselves up first, I feel we will most likely we will find a signal in the next 10 to 20 years, though chances are, it will be from a civilization too far off for us to even hope to communicate with.

I do hope that once we as a civilization finally realize that we are not alone, we actually begin to work together and solve the issues that are threatening us all.
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