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| Personal background |
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| My family and I live in California's Central Valley, and enjoy the heat (summer) and mountains (all seasons). Have dabbled in computer programming ever since the days of saving programs on punched tape, but have made it my profession for 10 years. We have a Win2000 machine that is usually on, so works on Seti data packets mostly at night, and a Win98 print server that is usually off, so works on packets occasionally. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am surprised at the number of folks who believe there are sentient life forms on planets other than ours. The profiles I have read seem overwhelmingly in support of the theory. I have to admit to being much more sceptical, although I accept that there is a slim possibility that they are 'out there.' I think it's an even slimmer chance that we'll detect it, due to the infinitesimally tiny slice (both time and space) we are examining for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
That said, I think it's important to support SETI for 2 reasons. First, since there is a calculable chance that e.t. life MAY exist, and we have the technology to look for it, I believe we should. At the very least, SETI is developing techniques and gaining experience in an area that someday we may be able to examine more thoroughly. Second, I think distributed processing will be the Next Big Thing in computing. The theory is fantastic. So much processing potential is frittered away in the idle loop, even when people are at work on their PC's. Hopefully the distributed processing model that SETI is cultivating can be put to work solving problems that require raw processing power to solve (DNA analysis/design? Weather modelling?). I'm pleased to be able to contribute to the effort (0.0000175% to date, but every little bit helps, I suppose!) |
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