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| I am a 32yr old seasoned internet user from Cheshire in the United Kingdom. By day I work as a Senior Technical Support engineer for a utility company in the UK, but by night I use the internet via my recently aqquired Cable modem. I've been into the net for a long time and find it an excellent way to find information and also an excellent way to express myself both graphically and musically. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I've been using Seti@Home for some time now, with the odd gap in between crunching sessions while pc rebuilds have been done together with pure forgetfullness. I like the idea of Seti@Home and the distributed processing idea and see no reason some days why not leave the pc on just doing some Seti work. (why not eh!?) Anyway, I have a strong belief that we are only capable of understanding something that our current realms of science allow us to understand, the rest they brush off as science fiction. I prefer to call it Science Possibilities. Who's to say that there is not a planet out there right now doing the same as us, only maybe with different methods. We could in theory be missing their signal as much as they miss ours, but if there is just one chance of a communication happening then its worth trying. After all we'd have to be able to physically traverse space to these far off stars to truly know if life is there or not eh?!
Some people think that transmitting a signal to another star system might lead to other races knowing our exact location thus making us a potential target for conquest. I say get your noses out of the star trek books and face a fact. If that race is capable of traversing such long distances, then they probably have the technology to know we are here anyway.
My advise to people unsure about running seti@home think on this... "If you do just this one thing with your pc, you will be contributing more to science than you think. After all, just how big a computer would you need exactly to process this much data without the distributed method?" Put it this way, it probably wouldn't fit in your bedroom and would need the cooling of a windtunnel.
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