| Personal background |
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located 15kms n/e adelaide city(australia)
dabble in astronomy , read Carl Sagans book 'is there anybody out there', heard about seti and joined. devote around 80% of my up time to running seti in background.
i enjoy all things socially scientific and enjoy always keeping an open mind to learned peoples thoughts and opinions. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1.seti is brilliant in its scientific approach, in its philosphies, i think there is life beyond earth, but alas cannot prove it. carl sagan was man born not a head of his time, but at exactly the right time.(IMHO OF COURSE).
2. we already do with tv. so lets boost the power baby!
3. i run seti as i have a system that copes with it now 8)
seriously, its not so much first to find, but the thrill of the hunt so to speak. an awesome kind of feeling to too, of being just a cell in a super computer that stretches the globe. the people i hang with at the abc tech talk forum also value the seti search. it gets rather competititve when a bunch of geeks start rocketing through units in thier overclocked mighty beast computers. but hey who wouldnt want to be assosiated with the honour of being amonst the group that makes first contact!
4. suggestion.... have some diffrent versions for slower cpus....or perhaos identify cpu on installl and then only download miniumum file, and hand the extra loads you have added to faster cpus and ram hogs.(for instance a machine thats a pentium 166 with 32 mbs ram would get a simplified unit but not the new style (the old style used to take about 26 hours on my p 133)noting that the new files run in 11 hours on duron 850 mhz w 255 ram) othere than that keeep sending down those units for me to analyse! |
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