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Chuck Ayers, amateur call n1kgy. Running a Quad Xeon 450/1M/2G, a two node cluster of Dual PIII/800/512/1.5G, and a few workstation class machines here at home. Right now these machines don't have much else to do, so I'm running S@H full time...let's see whta they've got - I've got some work-units to do if I want to make the big-time ;P
Ah...Finally - got the CL client and SETIQueue running on everything. Now I'm churning out some WUs...but soon we'll all be changing over to the new BOINC architecture, and be starting from scratch...I guess timing is everything?!?
A big hello and happy new year to all my friends from Veritas, Red Hat, and the rest of the RTP community -hope you guys are still crankin' away.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. If it's just us, it's quite a waste of space - yes I beleive there is life out there. Not sure if it wants to meet us, or anybody else for that matter, but it _is_ out there.
2. We humans are already spewing RF into space at a prodigious rate...a beacon would be moot at best, propaganda at worst. And like I said, I question whether any spacefaring civilization would be interested in a planet of filthy, corrupt, nationalist, neanderthals like us - we have a lot of cleaning up (environmentaly and socially) and growing up to do before our planet will constitute more than an interesting petri dish to such a civilization. Establishing a formal beacon would constitute a declaration of "species maturity" which we are just not ready to make, IMHO.
3. I think it's an excellent idea to harness as much of the idle processor power on the planet as possible for some worthy endeavor - God knows most computers are nothing more than web appliances these days, and do too much of nothing worthwhile. While I don't beleive we are mature enough to establish a beacon, I do beleive that listening and searching are among the steps to that maturity, and we _need_ to be doing them. We should also start exiling corrupt politicians to a primitive colony someplace _really_ cold (so they can learn about community and accountability), stop using every resource we have like there's no tomorrow, and just plain get real about our expectations and lifestyle, but that's a whole other story... |
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