| Personal background |
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I live and own a little business in San Diego, CA.
I run SETI on the machines in my business to give
them something to do other than space heating.
My favorite computer is my Sun Ultrasparc II running
Solaris 8. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) Yes. No idea. Electromagnetic radiation. Humiliation. Few to none.
2) No, but we already do, albeit inefficiently.
3) To make me feel less guilty about keeping my computer on 24/7.
Change your URL to something easy like www.setiathome.com.
Start thinking about optical signals a bit more. I think it is likely
that extraterrestrials would harness the optical output of a nearby
star by erecting a huge (as in many square miles) mirror assembly
using steerable micromirrors or similar technology to sweep a modulated
signal through a fairly large angular swath. Many gigawatts of EMR
could be transmitted this way very efficiently by encoding a message
using small, rapid angular modulation to impart information as they swept through large areas. |
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