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I'm originally from South Africa (Pretoria). I moved to Tucson, Arizona (USA) 2 years ago to do my Phd in physics. It seems very likely that I will do my Phd in theoretical nuclear structure. That is a fancy way of saying that I run jobs on a massive supercomputer, essentially diagonalizing matrices approaching 1 billion by 1-billion in size. My results are usually under 100K - so in some way, kind of like SETI (tons of calculation for a results like "1 spike found"). Yet, loads of fun. In short, there is loads left to discover. Anyone who says nuclear is dead is in no way informed about the field...
I play guitar, ride my bike and generally listen to hours of metal music a day. Occassionally I play far too much tremulous. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) I run SETI as it was the original distributed computing project. I have only run SETI since late July 2008 (sad I know), but have known of it since 2000. Also, my computer spends a lot of time just playing mp3's. Now it does something useful as well. I strongly considered running Einstein or LHC@home, but in the end decided to dedicate all my resources to SETI (which is really a measly laptop running at 866 Mhz). Those other projects are more likely to get loads of cash anyway, so they can afford computers and "stuff".
2) Credits are cool, but in the end it's more important to get the results back in. ET is probably out there somewhere - whether or not they are broadcasting remains a mystery...
3) Announce candidate signals regularly. |
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