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| Personal background |
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Well, isn't this interesting. Hmmm....well I live in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. You may remember this place as being the host City of the 2001 Summer Athletic Games. I am 30 something and currently work as a Consulting Engineer for Cisco Systems. My hobbies include, Ice Hockey of course, Golf and pretty much any sport that uses a stick and whacking something, and the best part, coaching my son's hockey team.
My outside of "normal" interests do include air travel and coincidentally .... space travel and the great unknown.
I have three systems crunching SETI. One is a Dual PIII 800Mhz system working on two CLI workunits at a time. The second is an AMD 1.2Ghz system and the third is a 700Mhz laptop. I can get through 9.3 work units a day. I manage the workunits with SetiQueue. I highly recommend this WorkUnit application as it makes sure you have workunits available to work with and then manages the connection to SetiatHome and not be delayed. As well as limits the retry impact on Setiathome servers. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Its a funny question wondering if there is extraterrestrial life......do I beleive that there is?..hmmmm....Yes I do. The odds are there. But how will we discover it? We won't, but they will find us first. They will also laugh at this project because it was too narrow in scope, especially the time frames that we poll. I think several thousand years worth of data may be required to find something out there. But hey...I could be wrong and we have completed over three years worth of analysis now and that is a good start.
Now if we do make contact, and we both get to share information and knowledge, it would end up being a phenominal learning curve for us. We will learn too much too soon, but over all it will most likely benefit the human race greatly for that.
I do agree with sending a beacon out. Our society is getting pretty mature with the prospects of dealing with, and actually making, Alien contact. So I think its a good thing. As far as what to send, not sure...but a "Hello" and a "How are You doing?" is a good start. ;)
I run Seti for the fun of it. Mostly to support the cause, I've been a member now for almost 3 years. This is a great project and it is kinda cool being part of it. I do like to help out, and since this computer doesn't do a whole lot besides run Seti and web services for my kids hockey team. The other reason is purely competitive. I want to beat the competitors who also have their companies listed on the groups list.
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