I am based in west London UK and have been number crunching for SETI just under 2yrs at the time of writing this profile. My name is Dave and i am 38yrs old. I work for DHL the courier company and have various hobbies from watching Formula One motor racing, mountain biking to walking round looking at the sky to see if i can see anything different. The system i am using to do the work on is a P111 450MHZ processor overclocked to 560MHZ with 896mb ram. I wonder how many SETI users were born in the early 60s and had there intrest in space ect awoken with the Apollo series of launches with man walking on the moon?
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
(1) To any other life forms in space we would be extraterrestrials. So there for you could say that they already do. I do think that if we find anything it would be more by luck as there is a lot of space out there and it is the same as trying to catch the only fish left in the worlds oceans. The benefits of finding other life forms is that they could stop us from doing something stupid and wiping ourselves out. On the other hand they might wipe us out.
(2) We should find out who we are dealing with first but as we find them they may well detect that we are here so there would not be much point in hiding. Information to send them would be a map of all the macdonalds on the planet in case they are hungry when they get here.
(3) The pc might as well do something in the 9hrs i am at work and the other 7hrs that i am asleep. The project seems to run ok and i see it mentioned in the uk press/magazines every so often. I don't know about other users but the purple on black on the home page is a bit hard to read.
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.
