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I was born -and I still live in- Argentina,which is located in South America.
I grew up early enough to fully live this amazing technology era, in which I had The Lone Ranger in B&W TV when I was 4 years old, and now I am able to record my own full color-high resolution movie in a DVD at home. It is just a sample of the many thousand ways of describing the incredible evolution of the second half of the XXth century. It's not me, it's the world that has changed and I feel wonderfuly lucky to have seen it happen.
My occupation is manager of an exhibition, although computers have always been my passion, since I first had the chance to work on a WANG MVP (32Kb memory, 10Mb HD just-text green CRT, 200cps matrix printer and no paging memory, that means it could only run one program at a time, and 100% of it and the variables and constants had to fit in available memory). It was around 1978 here in Buenos Aires, I was 22 and this computer was responsible for full operation of a Financing company with 25,000 customers (sigh!)
SETI work: two AMD k7 650MHz with 512Mb RAM - full time and no SETI screenprotector
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Whenever I seriously think about extraterrestrial life, all I have to say is that among so many billions of planets, Earth should not be the only one with life in it. Even intelligent life must exist somewhere out there!
However, it must be extremely rare, and being so many billions of planets out there, the task of finding each other is not easy, nor a quick walk. maybe some of them have already found us, if the many reports and studies are true, but in that case it is easy to see that they are not willing to let us know they´re here.
If they are already here and they are hiding the proof, then no danger can become to us. They would have already done it. If they are not here, then I can't imagine what benefit or danger may be out there, because it all depends on their fantasies and ours.
To transmit a signal is a good idea, but based only on what we developped as a civilization. We cannot be sure of the possibilities of making anyone out there aware of our existence through a radio signal. However, scanning the signals that come from abroad is working on thing we have using the knowledge we have. If there is anything worth hearing, we'll find it. Pity that we are probably trying to find something out of signals that went out of their home thousands or millions of years ago, when maybe there was still nothing to see.
The possibility is still alive, so ahead with SETI, and a brilliant idea was to develop the SETI@home program, which makes possible for millions of people to help and feel part of it even when we don´t know anything about what we are helping to achieve.
I run the SETI@home program just as I said in the previous paragraph: to help, to feel part of it, and as a way to give a brilliant idea what it was looking for: computing power... and a little bit for the ranking too.
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