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Hello there! I'm a student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in Asheville, NC. I'm 19 years old and have lived in the mountains of western North Carolina all my life. As far as career plans, I'm currently working toward a Bachelors of Science in Engineering degree with concentration on mechatronics here at UNC Asheville. This is mostly because I enjoy taking things apart and finding "creative" ways to fix things, so I decided to make a smart move and make a career out it.
I'm also a big fan of NASCAR Winston Cup stock car racing, not only because of the action but also because I think it's an engineering marvel of how the engines in those cars make 800hp without superchargers, nitrous or fuel injection while displacing only 5.7L or 358 cubic inches(!), as well as being able to run for 500 miles at 9000rpm or more. I keep track of the Series and catch the races on TV or the radio whenever I can. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| ET has to exist. The universe is simply too large for us to be the only civilised race in existence. I think maybe we'll have to go and search for ET, though if we find evidence of ET though SETI@home, it'll sure make things a heck of a lot easier for us. I believe we should use the utmost care in handling how to respond if we discover ET, to prevent the possibility of our first contact with ET being disastrous. I think we should send a beacon, and I think Avogadro's Constant (6.022e23) would be a great piece of information to send, mostly because it is only a number and because it's a universal constant. I think any extra terrestrial race at least as technologically adavanced as we are should be able to recognize this number. I got into SETI@home primarily because I just wanted help out when it comes to the data analysis, because I read some figures and was shocked by how much data per day (around 40GB) is collected on days when the Arecibo Observatory is used to scan for ET radio signals. I got to thinking that scientists actually conducting the project need all the help they can get in analyzing that data, so I thought "why not?". I'm glad I chose to too. I've been able to see just how fast my computer actually is by keeping logs of how many hours it takes it to go through a data unit, then comparing with others. |
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