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| Personal background |
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I'm 54 and an engineer, a race car driver, and ex in-line speed skater. I won a national
speed skating championship when I was 46, which was the absolute last thing I
would have ever guessed would happen in my life. I started skating to rebuild
a knee that got broken playing a "just for fun" soccer game about 10 years ago.
I work for a Lockheed Martin company (which used to be a Loral company and
before that was LTV). I've worked for three different companies and have never
left the same building.
I asked permission of my discipline boss to run the Seti program on my dual processor
800 Mhz Dell at work. He said "No, because its 'extra-terrestrial' software". Good
joke huh! Actually, there are a lot of people here running seti@home.
It would be way too cool to be the one to find a real signal! I'm almost at 100 units
as of this writing (8/29/2001.
Good Luck to everyone! Its never good to have all your eggs in one basket, and
as a species, we are in exactly that predicament!
John |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes its bound to exist! Chances are better that "they" are friendly than
not friendly. If they "find" us, we may well become the "monkeys in the zoo" exhibit, but
that may not be all that bad. Our own zoo monkeys live a much easier life.
2. Its a moot point. We have been transmitting signals for nearly 100 years.
Of course it wouldn't hurt our image as a species to get rid of "Springer" and
a few hundred other stupidities of the same ilk. That can't make us look very good ;)
I sure wouldn't visit us based on such "communication".
3. As I said, as a species we need to get our eggs in more than one basket.
This may be the most effective way of doing that. The project is a good idea.
About the only thing it needs is better "advertising". It was going on a long
time before I found out about it, and I'm sure others who would love to participate
still don't know about it. |
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