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| Personal background |
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I'm the System Administrator for a private school uniform company in San Francisco.
I've managed, over the last year, to install the seti@home TEXT ONLY client to run in
the background, (most users don't even know this) on almost every computer in the
company being used as dumb terminals (for the most part), or machines
that are on 24/7 but idle most of the time. It's been fun to see how many work units
I can get in in one day. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I've always been interested in science and astronomy. I'm not disciplined enough
to do well in school, however. So, I'm only a sys admin! In between trouble at
work, and in my spare time, I read about astronomy and science.
As a kid, I watched Carl Segan's Cosmos series on PBS. Man! I loved that show!
I always remembered the part where he mathematically proved that there's life on
worlds other than our own. So, it only makes sense to look for the life that IS out
there. Maybe I'm just a simple guy. Maybe Carl Segan's wrong. I like to believe we'll
find signs of life someday, microscopic or macro, with seti@home, similar projects, or
other.
It's hard to know if it's the right thing to transmit a beacon for others to find.
Depends on who hears it. Guess it's best, even if things turn out for the worse, to
take chances. You can't move ahead without taking a chance. So...YES, I suppose I do
think we should transmit a beacon for others to find. Though, seems like all the
telecommunications equipment we've got running is screaming out that we're here.
I, of course love the idea of seti@home. I actually heard of seti from another distributed
computing project. That project was called PIhex. This guy was using others' computers to help him figure out PI to some record
breaking digit. Seemed pointless but cool. I think seti@home's far from pointless and a very
cool idea, distributed computing and all. I think that seti@home's doing a great job. |
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