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Name: Dave Lembke
Location: Enfield, NH
Seti Member Since: 1999
Occupation: IT Professional
Hobbies: Computers, Electronics, Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, and Gambling at the Casino's.
Systems Running Seti:
Pentium MMX 166 Mhz ( File Server (Home)- Packed with 9.1 GB SCSI drives ) Running Seti on this idle Dinosour yielding about 1 unit every 1.5 to 2 days.
Pentium II 300 Mhz ( File Server (Work) - Packed with 3 HD's for 60GB of cheap storage ) Running Seti on this Idle Dinosour yielding about 1 unit per day.
AMD 2.08Ghz Athlon ( Home Gaming System ) - .5 Terrabytes of storage. Running Seti when the computer is turned on and yielding 1 unit every 7 hrs.
P4 3.06Ghz ( Work e-mail, admin, and playing Music & Games ) 200 GB storage. Running Seti on occasion yielding about 1 unit every 4 to 5 hrs.
((( My older seti acct, I lost the password to, so I could not carry my numbers over of a few thousand units.)))
I remember the first system I ran Seti on was a IBM 486 DX 33Mhz with 32MB Ram and Windows 95 on a 345MB HD. And for upload/download a horrible 19.2kbps connection on the 14.4 Zoom modem that some how squeezed out 150% of its rated speed.
Fortunately today I have Cable BroadBand and the transfer rates are over 1.5 megabits per second.
*** Reason for running & Joining seti:
I believe that we are not the only life forms out there capable of creating a technology that allows for control of radio waves for communications, and why waste CPU cycles & electricity pointlessly when it could be put to some good use possibly.
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1.) Answer - I believe that there is other life out there capable of communicating. Maybe we are looking in the Ghz range that is like AM radio speeds to the other life out there and they havent heard us yet. Ask yourself. How often do you even turn your radio onto AM anymore unless its for sports... Possibly as our technology becomes better we might cross paths with other signals that we can no measure at present time.
Also, why not put wasted CPU cycles and electricity to good use!
2.) Answer - First, I feel that there is inadequate coverage of the sky with the dishes. I see on the discovery channel so many times talk about how there are some dishes that dont have enough funding to operate 100% and how the government dropped the budget for Seti to a figure below 10 million from I believe 200 million back in the 1980's and early 1990's. I am hoping that with the team of computers crunching the numbers one group of computers will yield some positive results thus giving the seti program ammo to shoot for more government funding and more coverage of the sky and more often coverage.
3.) Answer - Suggestions .... Well I do have one. One flaw I see in the transmission of earth to space for a response is that if anyone or anything responded, would we actually be listening when we get our response with such limited and inadequate coverage? ALSO .... Any physics major should be able to tell you that all objects in space are moving in relation to the other like clock work. And in order for our signal to reach a destination, we would need to be able to predict exactly when the message got there to make sure that we have not over or undershot the target of the galaxy we are pointed at. If you were here on earth looking up to what you knew was earth and someone else was on a planet far far awaylooking back at exactly the same point in time, both of you would likely be looking in different vectored directions because of space and time it takes the light & radio signals to get from point A to B and Back. Plus you would be looking at the past of light & radio transmissions. If both beings at A & B timed it correctly in relation to the clock work of space and time, I feel a weak and distorted signal may be able to be detected, but that is if you could actually send out a signal and get a response in both beings life times.
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