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| Personal background |
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Hey, I'm just a computer nerd from Phoenix... I'm running SETI on a server and my personal dual-866 PIII workstation right now... so I'm only getting 6 units a day...
Due to a restructuring of our home network, we're splitting our server tasks out a little bit, dedicating boxes to the following: mail server, web server, SQL 2000 server, file/print server, and one box whose sole purpose is to host the family's extensive music collection... Now granted, these are all single or dual 450 and 500mhz boxes... but the CPUs are all Xeon 2mb cache units... so running two instances of SETI on the dual machines and one on each of the others will let the network tasks function great, and let SETI use the background clock cycles to do something besides sit idle... Sure, the 450's and 500's won't surpass my dual 866, or even my roomate's 850 Duron, they should be able to get a little bit of work done!
Okay... now that I'm done bragging, I'm gonna go dance... (I guess I'm not a TOTAL computer nerd after all!) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Number 1:
I really don't know if extraterrestrial life exists... that's why I'm trying to help out with SETI! I'm really not all that certain that SETI would be able to detect life anyways... it seems to be a needle in a haystack thing to me... but we'll see!
Number 2:
I think that transmiting a beacon may assist us in contacting other civilizations... but I'm not so sure that inviting another species to our door step with such a transmital would be the most inteligent choice. Call me cautious or call me paranoid, but I like the idea of being able to establish contact with another species on neutral ground, as opposed to having them meeting right "above" our heads. Granted, such an encounter could raise many new exciting possibilities, but some of those possibilities include bad (for our species) outcomes.
Number 3:
I am running seti@home to help strengthen the validation of the distributed computing paradigm... and of course, I'm interested in the possibility of ET life. |
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