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I've been with the SETI@home project for quite a long time, but poor computers meant I couldn't crunch much till recently, and even now my contribution is miserably poor by comparison with most participants.
I'm very interested in distributed computing, in fact I once created my own simple system, and I (with others) published results of a modest cognitive neuroscience modelling project, which used my system. If possible I'd like to help BOINC develop to be an adequate system for this sort of thing. I do subscribe to other projects, if they can practicably be run on my primitive hardware - at the moment I crunch Einstein, Protein Predictor and LHC, as well as SETI.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETI because I'd really like to find alien life or even intelligence. However, I am actually quite skeptical that we'll ever even find anything as complex as metazoans, and I'm getting more so - the astronomy and biology suggest we're screwed, despite the vastness of this universe. Still, "nothing ventured, nothing gained" and I'd be delighted to discover that I was unduly pessimistic. Here's hoping.
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