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Hey,
My nick is backspace and I'm an engineering student at the University of Sydney. I enjoy futzing around with Linux, Windows and MacOS. I have seti@home running on several machines (of differing platforms) at home. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Examining the tendency of nature to 'self-organise' and the size of the observable universe, then life would not only seem possible, but probable. On the other hand, if we are searching for, by our anthropocentric definition, 'intelligent' life, then it appears that our unusually stable local conditions have favoured the development of 'intelligence'. Therefore the existence of extraterrestrial life that we can communicate with appears less probable than the existence of mute extraterrestrial life. Of course otherworldly beings who are willing to communicate are more likely to be found than those who are either unwilling or unable to do to so.
My interest in seti@home is fuelled mainly by my interest in distributed computing. The power of the project is awesome. I only hope that Berkeley have the money to keep paying for the bandwidth at their end – it's got to be expensive. |
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