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CharlieB is a nearly retired computer engineer/manager in telecommunications. As a manager of voice mail platforms serving over 5 million users, I operate over 400 unix and NT servers spread over 21 states. I also have 5 working PCs at my house and a number of public servers - all with a lot of spare capacity.
It seemed a waste of computing resource, so I loaded SETI in all of them and let them run in the background. My stats over the last year are a result of multi-processing my chunks. I'd love to be able to use that much vaster resource of the many servers to drive this bus, but that encounters issues yet too big to solve for now.
I'm married with a 30-year old daughter, with 4 kids, and a 5 and 8 year old. The younger kids are very interested in science, earthly and heavenly, and I enjoy seeing them explore SETI and Space.com sites. I sense that they will be the generation that enters space as a common occurrence and I really want them to have the bug to take that journey.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI is less about science, though it's certainly a scientific endeavor, or about finding ET, rather it's about socio-exploration and community expansion.
The socio-engineering is a process of massive coopetition, engaging millions of disconnected, but competing and contributing, individuals and small groups into a common socio-scientific effort. To harness available power is perhaps the greatest scientific breakthrough this decade. If we discover promising signals that locate intelligent life in the universe, so much the better!
The search is our common goal, the greatest benefit of which may be a shift in our thinking, from "terrestrial humanity at the center of the universe" to "community throughout the universe." That life exists elsewhere, and it must, is a new point of view for humans, one that asserts inclusion and expansion to ever wider regions. From this view, one that accepts galactic neighbors, humans can accept the closeness of our terrestrial neighborhood, and the absolute right of our terrestrial neighbors to exist and thrive together.
It's likely my younger children, and almost certainly my grandchildren, will solve this mystery and make 1st Contact. I only hope that in my age, I can be around to see that happen.
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