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I live and work in Santa Rosa, CA, USA for the County of Sonoma as an accountant (with a bachelors degree from UC Berkeley ('79)in physics). I'm in my late 40s, married, with a ten year old daughter. My hobbies include vegetable gardening, following the local pro and college teams (49ers/Giants/Cal Bears), and following current events and scientific advances through voracious reading of any source , paper or online, I can access. I relax with a quiet afternoon in the garden or at a beach on the Russian River with my reading material.
This is my account for my work location (I have a seperate account, sjann1@aol.com, for my home computer).
At work, I run Seti@Home 24/7 on a 2.66GHz Pentium 4 running under Windows 2000, using SetiMon as my cache. I'm able to complete a work unit in approximately 4 hours, crunching about 6 a day M-F and about 12-14 over a weekend. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life DOES exist, certainly on the microbe level and hopefully at much higher levels, including intelligent. At the microbe level, we will discover it in the next ten to twenty years, if not sooner, beneath the surface of Mars, in the atmosphere of Titon or ocean of Europa, or on some other body in our solar sytem. As for intelligent life, we will detect something within 25-50 years, maybe tomorrow, as a signal from space, though not necessarily as a radio signal on the hydrogen line.
The discovery of even a microbe that evolved totally independently of the planet Earth would indicate that life can occur anywhere, and that intelligent life must have evolved somewhere on the billions of worlds out there, even if we never become aware of their existance. |
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