| Personal background |
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I'm currently a single, underemployed, mechanical engineer, living on the East Coast of the USA, who always wanted to be a pilot, or astronaut. I'm also into model trains, and have a good sized home HO layout under construction.
My other hobbies are travel, and photography, eating, exercising, and bike riding. I'd also like to have a solar powered house some day, but think that if everybody did this, the problem would become not green house gases due to power generation, but heat disapation due to oversupply of wattage. Also, a few years back, I learned to sail, as I couldn't afford flying lessons. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why am I contributing CPU time to SETI@home? Good question, with a relatively straight forward answer. I grew up watching hour upon hour of tv as a kid(including reruns of 'Lost In Space,' and 'Star Trek,' 'UFO,' amongst other sci-fi shows). I'd like to see whether any other civilization out there, can offer anything better to watch, for home tv viewing. I'm anxious to see SETI succeed, so I can view 'Alien TV' within my lifetime(since I think traveling to another world, orbiting another star, will be out of the question for me)!!
If I had a better computer, I could contribute more rapidly.
I'd like to see this 'iteration' of SETI succeed, so that a larger portion of 'out there' could be searched, or the search parameters expanded, in case we don't find anything with the current criteria/parameters. The only way to do that, as I see it, is to continue to recruit more 'number crunchers,' so the 'astronomers' can decide when and where they need to collect more data. Oh, and the good thing about SETI@home is, other than connecting to the internet periodically, not much is required of the CPU's owner. Who says I can't be productive while I sleep? Keep up the good work TEAM SETI!! |
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