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| Personal background |
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I'm from the UK (Bournemouth, on the south coast) and spend my spare time windsurfing, when I'm not working or sleeping (my favourite pastime). I was born on the 1st June 1968 (seems a long time ago now).
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I currently work as a Software Engineer (I currently work on Radar systems) and originally started using seti@home out of curiosity. I love the idea that that wasted computer time could be used to benefit another cause. I have seti@home running on 2 PC's at the moment, one being my internet server running full time and the other being my main PC which is not on all the time.
1) I think that life does exist but not in the same form as ourselves. I doubt we'll discover it soon (that’s assuming the human race lasts long enough to discover it at all). the benefits to a discovery would be based on the type of discovery made. Unless we get to make contact then I think the benifit would be limited.
2) I think we should make a beacon but only one that would transmit a signal similar to the type that seti@home looks for, anything else may not be understood (or worse misunderstood) until a common communication language could be established.
3) I run seti to put idle computer time to a good use, and also for the same reason most non religious people occasionally prey... you never know!
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