Profile: Herb Danhauser

Personal background
I am presently a retired, 55 year old computer systems analyst. My education background is degrees in Physics/Mathematics and have 35 years work experience in both physics and geophysics. My hobbies are computers, The internet, auto racing, walking, reading, Astrophysics, and working with Seti stuff.

The computers I am currently use are: IBM Aptiva 380 Mhz AMD K5, Gateway 950 MHZ AMD Athilon, a 600 MHZ Dell PIII Laptop and a Dell 2GHZ P4 and coming soon a Gateway 2.2 Ghz P4. Since I just hit the 1000 mark, each machine is nowing running as separate units (for benchmark purposes), for the SETI project, it will be great to see what the new machine benchmarks out at. These machines run 24 hours a day and I use a 2.5 mb cable connection to upload and download Seti data.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1> Yes. I do think that extraterrestial life exists. I believe that we will discover this when ET allows us too. The possible benefits of mutual cooperation with humans is sharing of technology, ideals and getting et's point of view on GOD. The dangers are 1. we may not be ready for that kind of new technology and 2. The turmoils here on earth may cause us to have problems dealing with ET life.

2> Yes I believe that we should transmit a beacon. And that beacon information should contain a statement of where we are and also a statement of something like 'y'all come on down now for a visit, ya hear. We'll be glad to have you and your kin as our friends.' ps - bring lunch.

3> I run Seti@home for probably the same reason as most of the other people are running SETI@home Curosity, and sense of helping mankind discover a new direction in their long climb upward to the stars.

I also use SETI@home as a great Benchmark for testing new computer processors
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