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| Personal background |
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I was once a common garden gnome. I grew up in a small urban garden in the south side of Chicago where I enjoyed eating Harold's fried chicken and Lem's ribs. I joined the SETI posse in the summer of 1999 and have kept my machines crunching data for the cause since then. Currently I am an IT professional in Tucson, AZ. While it is not traditional for a gnome like me to live in such a warm climate, I have a specially climate controlled server room kept at 68F where I spend most of my time. Recently I developed a low cost cluster system for rendering the animated movies I make and also for running SETI. The cluster consists of 8 boxes, each box is: Athlon XP 2500 Barton 333 fsb with 256 megs of ram that cost $200/box.
In my free time I like to drink proper British and German Beer and listen to Krautrock and Autochre while I work in my server room. Calexico is also nice.
Cheers,
Nik |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| There are old stories from the mother land that tell of the Gnome people being brought to this world on winged Chariots. While I have never believed these stories, I find it silly to think that we are alone in the universe. The Drake equation gives us nothing but possibilities. I think we should build a Beacon that transmits the Fibonacci sequence or the golden string ( 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1) at a frequency that is clean of background noise. We should send no information other than the signal it self. It does not seem possible to travel the stars and maintain desires like conquest. Although, given what I have seen through my long life as a gnome if any race could travel the stars and still want to destroy it would be Humans. |
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