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| Personal background |
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Background:
Husband, Father, work in the Computer industry in advanced hardware diags. Design and build PC’s for fun. American of English descent which shows in the irresistible urge to garden, have tea in the cooler half of the year, and the ability to understand British humour beyond Monty Python which yes, I still enjoy.
PC Description: Main unit is an Athlon Tbird 1.2GHz w/512 megs PC133, GeForce2 32DDR, 30 Gig 7200rpm U100 HDD. Others range from 233MHz PII to 650 MHz Athlon Classic.
The Web Site listed for me is for my Frog Smoochie. He once belonged to one of my co-workers that left him in my care. People kidnap him (the frog) and take him all over the planet. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Am I sure that Life exists out there? No. Do I think there could be? Absolutely. As a Christian, a lot of people expect me to automatically say, ‘No- there’s nothing out there’, for some reason. I look at it this way: in creation, we see that everything has an eventual purpose. Nothing is here that isn’t doing something useful in some way. Now, if God only made us then why make anything outside out immediate solar system, or at the most, our Galaxy? We certainly don’t need Andromeda.
Others argue about age of things. I think the general timeline of the Bible is correct as far as how long we've been here, but that there’s a seed of truth to the geologist’s estimates too. When He made the things of the earth in the account in Genesis, He made trees-not seeds, birds- not eggs, a man- not a baby. Bird age 1, Man age 20ish say, and tree age 40-100 maybe. He made them mature. So, earth mature age 4.6 billion, Sun mature 5 billion and so on. Whole universe up and running with light already on its paths so we can see the things further out. I mean hey- He's God. He does that stuff. Anyhow, if anyone’s close enough, we might get to say ‘Hullo’ to them some day. If we find them, let's find out about them.
That’s why I’m running SETI@home on every machine I’m in charge of (5). I also use it as a sort of benchmark as to how well-tuned a machine is and how powerful the latest processors are. My fastest machine finishes in around 5.5 to 6.2 hours and as I upgrade, I expect to get it under 4. The slowest takes 22.
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