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I'm a (hopefully soon to graduate) computing student living near Glasgow in Scotland, main interests being messing around with computers and rifle shooting.
stats for the ystem I run seti on:
mandrake linux, 2300MHz athlon (very slightly overclocked 3200xp) 1GB RAM
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'd be surprised if ET life *didn't* exist, the question is whether it's within comms range; it seems we'll have to significantly increase the sensitivity/number of radio receivers before ther's a good chance of detecting transmissions.
The benefits would be obvious -- hopefully any ET species would share technology that would advance our own.
As for sending messages -- we've been doing that for the past 100 years anyway...; seriously, a high power omnidirectional signal is probably the way to go, something that says "we're here, we're intelligent!" (maybe 3 massive nuclear explosions safely distant from the earth, one of the intervals being 2*pi times longer than the other) -- hopefully in several years we'd get a reply in kind then more efficient methods could be used.
Why do I run the program? -- mainly so my computer does *something* useful at all times. |
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