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Hello from sunny Southern California, USA!
My daughter Erin and I signed up again with Seti@home in 1999 when I had been idle for a time, running the Classic Seti program since hearing about it on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell as a truck driver. On those long nights driving around the country I would scan the dial to tune in to that program to hear about all of the interesting things controversial. Upon returning home I started running work units on my then-cutting edge 486! As time went on, in 1999 I built a new machine and signed up again, creating this account. At the time, Erin was just 7 years of age and was fascinated with anything to do with life out there. She would see me reading about it and I would tell her about it in stories, and was amazed at how a little girl of that age could wrap her mind around such a topic. But she always asked how we were doing. I had, by then been off the road and was a fleet manager for a major trucking company. Now, some 10-years later she is 17 and lives with her mother in Oregon. When she is here to visit me she asks how we are doing on this project and I show her. She is still "me" in a smaller version, and still curious about those things I used to tell her about.
I converted over to the Boinc platform when it came out and have ugraded as needed. I currently run it on my dual-core AMD desktop and my new dual-core AMD laptop made by HP.
For a time we were involved with a team, proving especially useful when Boinc was new and we couldn't get work units. Somehow our team leader had a way to get us new work and this worked out well, and we ran several projects. However, the team leader suffered ill health and most of us went our own ways. I simplified and attached only to Seti@home where we have remained.
I strongly believe in the use of distributed computing for research projects, and I remember when Art Bell spoke on the air of needing a certain number of participants for this project. Who could have guessed how this would explode into many times that number around the world, allowing it to become what it is today? I'm glad to see it, since several things are being studied by many researchers now using this platform.
Drop us an email if you like and tell me your seti@home story, or just say hello! We are at erhinocorp@aol.com, and please put seti@home in the subject line so I am the one that opens it. Crunch on my friends!
Chris and Erin.
Updated 11-24-09 |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am sure that life exists outside of our planet, and I think in many ways we have already discovered it, but it is likely concealed by those few in governments that fear disclosure. I fully support any effort to disclose the existence of extraterrestrial life that is not able to be supressed by other means, as I am confident our government does to this day.
I recently re-read a book by Dr. S. Greer, "Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Impact and Implications" and learned much about the subject. I may be slightly off in the spelling of his name and/or title of his book, but it is well worth the reading.
My daughter and I share these views, although Erin doesn't fully understand why, just that daddys computers are looking... and they are!
Good searching to you, one and all. |
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