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Hello SETI team,
I'm a writer and translator aged 65 living with my Russian-born wife (a retired scientist) in Luxembourg. Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov and others have combined to prompt my interest in your project, recommended to me by my son, a computer systems analyst in Cambridge, England. My paternal grandfather was French. Although all my writing nowadays is in English, when much younger, I authored a small collection of illustrated science fiction stories intended to promote the teaching of French in schools.
When downloading your BOINC file, I opened it rather than saved it. My computer runs on the old Windows 98 system. After installing your file, I found a BOINC icon on my desktop and a similar one on my lower toolbar (or did it gravitate there from the desktop? - I can't remember). There was also some kind of accompanying "File Manager". Within minutes of installation, all these disappeared from view.
I have yet to see activation of your screensaver.
Feedback would be appreciated.
Best Wishes for your project!
Martin Thiebaut |
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1. To boost, be it only infinitesimally, your outreach.
2. AS one Chinese scientist (I believe) said about research of this kind: If anyone or anything does signal us from deep space, perhaps it would be best not to respond. Their intentions could be less than honourable.
3. I look forward to receiving your newsletters. What a pity the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be left to die in orbit. Was Columbia ever used to help park a SETI satellite? If not, perhaps its successor could be. |
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