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Hello. (that is just a pict. i like)
I am a student currently attending OIT takeing courses to earn a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering. I live on the north Oregon coast when i am not in college and intend to do so for many years to come. I found seti@home on TV and shortly after in the Popular Science magazine. I thought that it was something i could enjoy greatly being that two of my foremost interests lie in Space and Computers. Seti@home has turned out to be more fun than i could have thought and i look forward to completeing more data units. I have seti@home usually running on about three or four systems depending on where my frequent hardware changes take me.
I developed and interest in space from a young childhood and have continued to dabble in it as time allows me. I first became interested in space while watching Star Trek and then TNG as well as Star Wars and many Arthur C Clarke novels. About the same time i also discovered the endless world of computers. I love computers and everything about them, i have seen them as the future and find vast interest in watching them change by the day. As with space and astronomy i must give most my thanks to Star Trek and Arthur C Clarke for my discovery of computers. Such timeless computers as M5 from Star Trek and HAL9000 from the masterpice 2001: A Space Odyssey by Clarke first allowed me to see how powerful and awsome computers truly may become.
Ok, Ok... I really do have other interests too. I enjoy reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels during my spare time. Arthur C Clarke, Orson Scott Card, HG Wells, Robert Jordan, JRR Tolken, and Edgar Allan Poe are a few of me favorite writers. Movies are another big pass time for me, i love watching Sci-Fi, action/adventure, comedy, mystery and forigen films. As for music (which i think everyone likes at least some type...) i listen to it whenever what i am doing allows. I like all types of music, but particularily enjoy clasic rock, several alterative/new age bands, and of course 80's. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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As for my personal oppinion of seti@home, i belive it is one of the best things to happen to the computing world. It has shown how sucessful distributed computing can be and has spawned many other worthy projects baised on the precident of seti.
I feel that it would be astoundingly arrogant of us to even consider that extraterrestrial life does not exist. Space far too vast for just one life to come to being. Furthermore, we live in what could very well be a backwater part of the Milky Way near the end of one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. I belive that as humans we have virtually no experiance in the universe and makeing a conclusion as to whether there are other life forms would liken to asking a infant whether derivatives exist. The infant may have heard of such a thing, but anything further would be pure guess work. We have no real idea of what other life forms may be like or how they may think, but it is quite common for us to make them similar to ourselves.
I think we should transmit a signal, i do no see how it could be responsible for bringing a hostile force to us when we have been transmiting signals for the most part of a century already.
And of course i run seti@home and as much as i can. I think the project was a suberb idea and hope it will last as long as possible. As for suggestions i think some more fun features at the seti@home site would complement the project and site. Also i hope there will be a version of seti@home to take full advantage of 64bit processors once they are out. With 64bit chips data processing times could possibly be cut in half. |
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