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| Personal background |
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I started to run Seti in 2001. I lapsed for a while as I didn't have a machine I could use it on but I am back.
I am an artistic photographer living in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
I can be found mainly on G+ at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MikeWood/posts
you can find all my pages etc at
http://about.me/mike.wood |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that it is statistically likely that there is life out there. Otherwise it's a rather empty place. Dangers: well if they don't really want us around and have no prime directive, and would rather make an interstellar bypass and wipe earth out, then that would be bad. I think that there are probably aliens like that - but there are likely to be the good kind too.
Transmitting a universal hello with the usual prime numbers and such would be a cool thing.
Seti at home, and distributed computing in general, is a great idea and an excellent way of applying unused cycles. A real group effort that crosses international boundaries and could perhaps turn up something useful one day. At the very least it will help in scanning and ruling out patches of the sky. I think its great fun to see the screen saver working and knowing that there could be something in the FFTs and number crunching that could turn into a Contact. Not sure who would play me in the movie!
Mike |
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