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| Personal background |
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I'm just an average "Joe The Plumber" guy who feels that knowing we are not alone in the universe would be a really great thing.
I'm a former clean-room electronics inspector, and former radio jock who now resides in Phoenix, Arizona. I collect music on vinyl, ride my Harley, build and repair computers, play the guitar, and am currently looking for work as I, like many, got laid off.
I completed my move, December 7th, into less expensive quarters, I intend to stick my router back in line, and put a few more computers onto the BOINC system. I like the idea of doing something worthwhile with processors, rather than idling them.
I got into repairing, and upgrading computers after a friend was charged by the Geek Sq**d $125.00 for a SYSTEM RESTORE! In fairness, my friend didn't know he could do it with a few mouse clicks, so being a dumba** he paid for ignorance.
I started charging $25.00 to fix FUBARS and B.S.O.D.s - usually viral, and generally caused by people visiting sites they shouldn't have. There are a good number of folks who cannot afford exorbitant repair rates.
Heck, I guess a biker dude, Journalism Major, can fix computers....don't have to be a geek or a nerd to learn. I taught myself what little I know.
I wonder if the Aliens look like Lacey Chabert?
SETI is great. Best to all.
I will be off line from 12-7-08 to 12-09-08 as I am moving, and it takes a day or two to get COX out to enable my internet feed at my new location.
As soon as back on line, will enable BOINC and will try to minimize the downtime.
I'm on-line, and all systems are go. only have to shut down for occasional reboots, after updates download. Best to All.
Feel free to drop a line...here...or on my email t.andrewgarrett@yahoo.com
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why? Because it is my humble means of contributing to something good and worthwhile, and GRID systems just make a lot of sense, as opposed to spending vast sums on supercomputers.
My experience in electronics has taught me that it is preferable to leave such devices running all the time. Temperature variables are the enemy of
solid-state devices. An idling processor is wasteful. So.....better put to good use.
My Views? I am optimistic, given the probabilities of Earth type planets orbiting GO type stars...there are likely other civilizations, and of those there must exist a subset of civilizations developed to the state of electromagnetic communications. Only negative factor is time. The signal we may detect, could be from a culture long gone, or so advanced that we would not comprehend it. We are "looking" into the past....the very very far past.
No suggestions. I'm not qualified to offer any. Never studied radio astronomy,
and am now too old to learn new tricks as it were. Just glad to contribute my processor time. |
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