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Born in England, raised in Canada and living in the United States, I am a 40-something live sound engineer and theatrical stagehand. In my spare time, what little I have, I like to read fiction and non-fiction, play strategy and role-playing games and spend time with my wife.
My first experience with SETI@home was about 6 years ago, when I had a Macintosh LC575. It took literally months for the compute, working pretty much constantly, to process a block of data. When I upgraded to a Mac clone, the processing time dropped to weeks. At some point between the clone and the G3 I lost the ability to connect with my SETI@home account, so I haven't been involved for a few years. Now that I have a G5, I thought it was time to get back on board. |
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There must be other intelligent life in the universe and I wold like to speed up the process of finding it. I can't beleive, with all the stars and potential planets out there, that we are alone  there's just no way God could have screwed up this badly on a one-shot deal.
The first time we make contact with extra-terrestrial life, I want to nominate the person who came up with the concept of SETI@home for the Nobel Prize in science. The idea of taking all the millions of personal computers which spend the bulk of their time gathering dust and putting them to use this way was a stroke of genius. Actually, why wait?
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