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Ghery S. Pettit Send message Joined: 7 Nov 99 Posts: 325 Credit: 28,109,066 RAC: 82 |
I hit 20 years of SETI @ Home today (PST). Amazing what listening to Art Bell one night started. And we still haven't found any aliens. Oh well, we'll just have to keep looking. |
Karl Öberg Send message Joined: 8 Jun 99 Posts: 16 Credit: 37,577,764 RAC: 230 |
I started way back in 1999 with my amd k6-2 450 mhz. Havent given up on finding them aliens. Cheers from SWEDEN |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11408 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
I have never listened to Art Bell but crunching Seti seemed like a good idea to me. |
Darrell Wilcox Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 303 Credit: 180,954,940 RAC: 118 |
20 Years! How the years have gone by. From my 486-50 to a couple of TR3's and i7's, it has been fun. Hope to see you all in 20 more! |
Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 |
It's been 20 years for me....just...WOW.. I remember back in 1999 when I downloaded the original Seti@Home program and stared at the screen saver for hours hoping to see something, haha I enjoyed looking at the "interesting results" Folks, "they" are out there...but by now probably aren't even using RF for comms....although those old old signals might just started arriving any day now from their long interstellar voyage.. |
Cherokee150 Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 192 Credit: 58,513,758 RAC: 74 |
I am so very happy to be able to join this special club during the very 24 hours of my 20th anniversary of becoming a SETIzen. Although I read the forums often, I don't get on them that much. So, I thought, on this 20-year anniversary, since so many of you have shared so much with us, I might share a little about myself. It was a very turbulent time for me. My beloved wife of 22 years had died suddenly just three years earlier, leaving behind our precious 19 1/2 month old son. I was, therefore, a single dad, devoting the majority of my personal time raising our son. My mother had also died suddenly just five months earlier. At work, we were feverishly wrapping up the Millennium Project. The U.S. ABC News program was preparing to do a Christmas week interview with my little son and me for an expose they were going to do on the dangers of the pharmaceutical that killed my wife. I guess you could just say I was very busy! However, as soon as I heard about the SETI project, I knew I just HAD to join! So, according to my personal logs, at 18:24 GMT, Thursday, November 11, 1999, I accessed the old www.seti@home.com website and signed up. Within a few minutes I began processing my first unit. Things were so different then. My home PC was a scathingly fast (for the time) Acer Aspire Pentium 200 (that200 was the CPU speed in Megahertz)! From the first unit I became a 24/7/365 SETIzen. By Saturday, September 18th, I had written, tested and implemented an interface that recorded the results of every unit. The first unit I recorded that day was 18my99ab.18558.12304.953400.125. It took 186,812.089 seconds (2 days 3 hrs 53 mins 32 secs) of CPU time to process that first unit! I know my total and average cobblestones aren't very impressive compared to some of the people who are just as committed to SETI, but also lots of resources available. In my defense, I will say that I have done everything on my home computers, with limited resources. Today, with fewer resources than ever before, I manage to keep three machines going, with two waiting for resources, which may never come, to acquire parts. I am proud to say that two of the three machines still operational I built myself from the case on in (or the motherboard on out, if you prefer). ;-) I like and respect all our fellow SETIzens, especially those who constantly respond to requests for help (we all know who you are). Now that 20 years have passed I might even put up my profile soon (in some things I am an -ultimate- procrastinator, eh?). I might even share the true story of an event that occurred when I was a child that would make even the most dubious UFO doubters do a double take. I have the good fortune of having extensive knowledge and experience in electronics, computers, radio and lasers. I mention this because that background provided me my proudest moment in SETI. Back at the beginning the SETI staff had the time to personally communicate with SETIzens. Dr. Anderson and I had been communicating about SETI issues via email for a while. On Saturday, March 18, 2000, at 21:38:06 CST (2000-03-19 03:38:06 GMT), after several days and many hours of contemplating alternate communication methods other species might utilize, I sent an email to Dr. Anderson, which described in detail a possible alternative communication technique. I proposed that a large amount of data could be transmitted via very short duration bursts, using a very large frequency range that, in effect, flip-flops our narrow frequency, long duration signals. In other words, the data is vertically stacked across the frequency spectrum, and the signal duration contains the digital information for each specific data bit. Dr. Anderson liked the idea, and he responded that they were considering adding a search for it. I think we all know what that data pulse eventually became known as in SETI. I know my contribution is not nearly as great as all the thousands of hours so many of you have spent contributing to SETI, but it is something I was able to do, and I am so happy I could add my small part to this great project. |
Bill G Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 1282 Credit: 187,688,550 RAC: 182 |
Very interesting profile. Congrats to all of the 20 year members. In just 2 years I will be joining you. SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
528 Send message Joined: 23 Nov 99 Posts: 89 Credit: 338,541,253 RAC: 367 |
20 years ago, today. A Living example of Artificial Intelligence. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
congrats 528 |
MagicEye Send message Joined: 19 Sep 99 Posts: 70 Credit: 40,327,877 RAC: 75 |
My anniversary is now more than 2 months in the past - but i didn't know about this thread until now. The day of registration was random - but looking now on the date i'm happy about all these 9's ;) (19.09.1999) |
Cherokee150 Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 192 Credit: 58,513,758 RAC: 74 |
Congratulations, MagicEye! I wish you many more 9's, and I plan on congratulating you in the 30 Year Club, too!! ;-) |
Kevin Macey Send message Joined: 11 Oct 10 Posts: 9 Credit: 231,784 RAC: 0 |
Strangely I remember seti@home going on in the mid 90's, might still have my old files on full hdd/os backup to 640mb cdrom. Can't remember the name of my old account though, probably imagekiwi! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36314 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I joined the club a few days back. Cheers. |
Gecko Send message Joined: 17 Nov 99 Posts: 454 Credit: 6,946,910 RAC: 47 |
Looks like I hit 20 in Nov. Wow, time flies. Greetings to old friends. I've been doing some catch-up reading on forum posts and see lots of great optimization work going on. So many more platforms and ways to contribute over the past several years. It's fun to see! Best, Gecko |
Zap de Ridder Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 227 Credit: 1,468,844 RAC: 1 |
20 years already! Started as a member of HCC also the biggest computer club in Europe then I think. Highest total members for SETI was only 217. Now we're only with 34 members of which 4 active. Read the forum maybe 2 times a year now and currently crunching only 8 hours a week :-) |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 |
20 Years... How time flies! I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
daysteppr Send message Joined: 22 Mar 05 Posts: 80 Credit: 19,575,419 RAC: 53 |
SETI@home member since 28 Jan 2000 w00t! Im 20! Next year i'll be able to drink! /edit: blast. im late darnit! |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
SETI@home member since 28 Jan 2000But you're old enough to remember Tradewars 2002 (man, the hours I played that BBS game! Can it still be played somehow, somewhere?), so I think overall you have the credentials to qualify as an honorary member ^^ Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
awdorrin Send message Joined: 27 Sep 99 Posts: 71 Credit: 106,424,089 RAC: 261 |
When SETI@home goes into hibernation on March 31st, I will be at: 20 years, 6 months, 5 days. Quite amazing. |
John Neale Send message Joined: 16 Mar 00 Posts: 634 Credit: 7,246,513 RAC: 9 |
20 years today. The day I signed up was one day after my 37th birthday. |
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