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| Personal background |
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I am a German physicist in the early fifties[1]. I love my wife, son and daughters, computers, books and music, each of which does get too little attention due to the necessity of having to earn a living [2].
When I started with distributed computing at Seti@Home (classic), I used to crunch alone. After switching to BOINC, I finally became a member of team BOINC Synergy, which makes crunching even more fun. Chatting in the friendly and helpful forum, crunching together to promote a Project of the Month, and seeing what you can achieve as a team makes it worthwhile to join a team. I strongly recommend it to anybody.
Notes:
[1] I could give the exact age, but then would have to update my profile on a regular basis, which - at my age - I will certainly forget. ;-)
[2] Not that I don't enjoy my work. But I happen to know even more enjoyable ways to spend my day. ;-)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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When I started with distributed computing I was runnig SETI Classic, only.
When switching to BOINC I decided to support other projects, too, which deal with urgent problems of mankind. So now SETI only gets a small share of my computer time. But I believe that is OK as SETI still gets about half the computing power available through BOINC. The other projects need computing power, too.
While I believe that we are probably not alone in the universe, I think that the chances of finding somebody else and making actual contact are slim.
Just lets hope that whoever is out there, is friendly and peaceful. |
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