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| Personal background |
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(I'm the one with the beard!)
I'm 49 years old and, in approximate order of importance, a husband, a father, a youth worker, a writer, an amateur scientist, a caver, and a software engineer. I'm a bit young for my age; I still like to party. (May that never end; no sense in dying quite yet. Too much live for.)
If you want to know more about us, including my wife Lisa and kids, we do have a Web site at http://www.duane-n-lisa.net.
Current status of my SETI farm:
#1: 2.4GHz Pentium 4; Windows XP; 90% SETI
#2: 2.5GHz Pentium 4; Windows 2000; 95% SETI
#3: 2.3GHz Pentium 4; Windows 2000; Currently broken
#4: 800MHz Pentium 3; Windows ME; 20% SETI (my wife's laptop)
By the way, the little girl in the picture is Aspen, the daughter of some friends. We were on a youth caving trip somewhere in northern Georgia. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Gone are the days when people can easily do science in their garages. You need multi-billion-dollar particle accelerators, or DNA sequencers, or supercomputers, or something beyond the financial reaches of most individuals. Only one vestige of those days remains: astronomy. It is one area where serious amateurs can still make a contribution without having millions of dollars at their disposal. And one subsection of that is SETI.
What's more, isn't it great that a project exists where millions of people from around the world can contribute cooperatively? And isn't it great that it happens to be the one research project which more than any other could fundamentally alter how we view ourselves and our place in the universe? I'm elated to be part of it. |
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