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Hi. I'm a 28-year old Professional Musician living in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. I first heard about SETI@home on the television, but thought no more about it until a friend of mine showed me his screensaver in 2002 and I thought, "Why not? I might as well make my screensaver do something useful!"
I was always fascinated by astronomy at school and am glad to be able to join in in such a practical way. |
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I'm certain that extraterrestrial life exists, yes. I mean, a short consideration of the infinite diversity of the cosmos and the extreme diversity of life on earth and the extreme conditions under which it can survive indicates that it's almost inevitable. As for the discovery of it, that's another matter. How long have we been looking? A few decades at most, and it's a VERY big universe and a decade is a mere blip of time. It COULD happen, and CAN happen, but whether or not it will depends on luck, time and determination. Resources are always scarce, which is why this project is so important.
Transmitting a beacon for others to find is a fine idea, but the odds of it hitting another civilisation which happens to notice it at the right time etc. are SO SLIM that I suspect the effort involved would be better spent on a search such as this one - it's more likely to yield a useful result.
The way that BOINC and the SETI@home Classic programs work to gather millions of years of processing time simply by using voluteers' idle processors is such a very simple and obvious idea that I'm still stunned at how successful it's been.
Long may it continue.
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