| Personal background |
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Background:
I'm a French student at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon engeneering school,
where I study applied physics. I aim at using my technical competences
for the good of humankind. Currently, I'm having a training period.
Something about a 1.4 Ghz radiometer looking at the Earth!
Interests:
I like high level languages for computer programming. I use them to
solve problems, not to bother with memory allocation, etc.
I admire Franz Kafka's philosophy.
Computer description:
I dont have any computer! I run SETI@home at my school while working on
a computer.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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How I foud out about SETI@home:
I heard of the projet some years ago, but I can't remember when. Last
March, a friend of mine found out. As we live in a university campus,
SETI@home became famous at our third floor when we start to compete to
know who was the best ET finder.
The reason why I run SETI@home:
I've found out that there are a number of computational projects working
thanks to ordinary people. Among them, SETI@home is the only one which
aims at a better comprehension of our universe with no (visible)
commercial strings attached.
Thoughts about ETI and SETI@home:
I'm not sure there is intelligence outside Earth: nobody has proven it
so long. But this is a reasonable hypothesis and we have the technology
to check. Regarding to the time life exists on Earth, the age and
the size of the Universe, I believe there is little chanche for us to
discover ETI by looking at the small 1.4 GHz band for a few years in
some given directions in the space. But trying is the way science
progresses since the times the Humans learned to control fire. Even
if the SETI@home project doesn't find any interesting signal, this
project has made radioastronomy and parallel-ditributed computing be
popular among the public. Moreover, mathematical methods as well as
computational concerns have been studied and improved. This is why
SETI@home is so important whatever the results may be. |
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