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Greetings Friends...
My name is Mark and I live in the United Kingdom. I am 40 years old and work within the Security Industry.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am under no illusion that the search for extraterrestrial life, in whatever form we choose, wether it be in the form of radio waves or light spectrum frequencies, will have astronomical odds against us ever being successful in our life time or, in that of our children's children children's life time.
Looking for an ET signal, even with our best Technology is still like being thrown into the middle of the Sahara Desert and asked to search for a 'possible' single grain of gold using only a pair of chop-sticks to examin each and every grain of sand we came across. Of course we would not know how deep this grain is buried beneath the surface, nor would we be able to distinguish it from the surrounding grains of sand without first examining it very closley. So as you can see, its a daunting task that we take. I personally do believe there is extraterrestrial life out there and that there is more 'chance' of them finding us, than we are of finding them. Should we be a beacon for others to find?... No. We still need to develope and grow under our own steam before we can think of jump starting our civilization light years into the future. Nothing was ever gained learning to run before we
could walk.
The SETI@home program is, by and large, well suited for its purpose of sifting through large chunks of segmented data, the only suggestion I would make would be for an option to switch off the graph generation for those times when I wanted to just process the data that much quicker.. It takes on average, 30 hours on my AMD Athlon XP 2000 computer to process 1 work unit, while with the commandline
client I can process the same work unit in about 4 hours!.
My setup is.
AMD Athlon XP 2000
512 MB RAM
L1 cache 128K
L2 cache 256K
Average CPU time per WU is 4 hours
Total CPU time: 302 hours (Includes time spent using SETI GUI)
50 WU's completed.
Live long and prosper! |
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