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I'm a software developer living here in the United States. Ever since a very young age I've been interested in astronomy and space travel. I had always wanted to be an astronaut so I could see the Earth and Space from a perspective so few have seen personally.
In any case, now that I have obviously not been able to live my dream of becoming a space traveler :) I've been trying to give to my seven year old son the very knowledge that I was in love with and thirsted for. He is very interested in everything scientific, specially (but not limited to) dinosaurs and space.
Perhaps when he's dropping his grandchildren off at the space port for a trip to the Lunar Colony a century from now, he can tell them that they're fortunate to be able to take for granted something his parents could only dream of doing :)
I'm just glad that with my meagre computing resources I'm able to contribute in some meaningful way to finding (or saying Hello to) a people whose grandchildren might some day be going to Luna Elementary with my descendents. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The first time I read about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life I was amazed that I hadn't thought of it. Ever since then I've always wondered what it would be like to meet someone extra-terrestrial. Since the possibility of that has always been remote, I'm also a firm believer that we should explore the unfathomable depths of our world as much as we try to explore the unreachable expanse of space. Perhaps we might discover among ourselves the very thing we look outside for :)
The first time I read about SETI was in some old video footage with the late Carl Sagan describing it. I'd already heard Dr. Sagan talk about how statistically there should be 10 planets in our galaxy that are as suitable for life as Earth is and that at least one of them should statistically have life similar to Earth life. I kept SETI in the back of my mind as a very interesting project to look into.
The first time I read about SETI@Home I finally dug that thought out of the back of my mind and decided that if I wanted to do something for SETI this was a golden opportunity knocking my door down :) I installed the SETI@Home client some years back and kept it running on and off since my computing resources were very limited and it hampered my work considerably. Most recently, however, I've been able to get my hands on decently powered machines for home and have re-installed the SETI@Home clients. They now run continuously and I don't even notice a difference in the other programs I'm using.
I'm finally making a difference to myself, if not the greater SETI project. After all, if you collect enough drops you will eventually make an ocean. |
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