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Hi everyone!
My Name is Martin I\\'ve been born (1966), bred and living in beautiful Amsterdam in Holland.
I work for an Architect firm as a designer/draftsman/system-manager.
I actually joined SETI@home many years ago, while I was still working on my 33MHz-CPU, 125Mb-HDD 8Mb-Dimm machine but gave it up after just a month. (can you guess why?)
When Idle, the cruncher I now use for my 3D architecture animations (150+ times faster) crunches through the white noise from the black void.
Apart from architecture, I read a lot of S.F. (Stephen Baxter rules!),
watch too much S.F. (Locutus rules!), play guitar (Ibanez, Washburn) and listen to music (the Gathering rules!), do lots of long distance running, play chess and go, and lately been skydiving a lot, do some programming (C++,VB) and I have two turtles named Lursa and B'étor (but unlike SETI they never listen) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why I run Seti?
\\"Questions give us no rest.
We know not why we seek, but we can not resist it.
It wispers to us that there are great things beyond this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them.
You ask why must we know, but we have no answer to give you.
We must know that we may know.\\" equality 8-2521.
I concur with Drakes guesstimate on the chances of intelligent extraterrestrial live, but have no definite answer to the Fermi-paradox.
I think that the chances of SETI actually finding intelligent transmissions are very (very) small, but maybe that is not even the point.
If you don\\'t watch you don\\'t see, if you don\\'t listen you\\'ll never hear.
you might one day find other equally interesting unexpected things you might otherwise never have stumbled upon.
SETI not finding any noisemakers nextdoor might actually be a good thing;
Considering what a small percentage of the space in the universe is capable of harbouring life, competition for these prime locations must be absolute murder.
If the Neighbours aren\\'t at home it means the local real estate is still up for grabs.
If us humàns can get there before say the year 2525 they might not have had the time to develop any intelligence.
A shame really that the impact at chixulub happened 65 million years ago, if it had only been half a million years earlier we could have been all
over the place (i mean our galaxy) by now.
We should actually be very glad that SETI doesn\\'t find the rest of our class is way ahead of us.
Whether we should try to get in contact with them through a beacon is an other thing.
The curve describing how friendly these extraterrestrials are, between those
whom we should seek and those whom we should avoid (between betazoid and borg),
is probably a Gauss-curve.
Before we attract any attention (like leaving a warp-trail somewhere), we\\'d better put our ear to the wall and peer through the keyhole, to check out on which side of the curve the neighbours are.
And that\\'s where SETI comes in.
suggestions?
When the Near Time Persistency Checker comes online, it might be a good idea to map all the signals on a skymap and animate that against time,
see if we can find any moving targets. (btw has SETI ever detected voyager? (v\\'ger not Janeway\\'s)
Would be nice to have some more real science on the web page and be able to see the real results sifted out of those WU\\'s instead of the emphasis on the statistics.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if:
-you ran an AI program like mindpixel as a BOINC project.
-if you ran a search-engine as a BOINC-project.
It would be even more interesting if you could combine the two. |
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