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Hi, I'm a computer consultant based in the UK, married with two kids
and two dogs. Besides having too many spare CPU cycles for this I
read, collect stamps with my daughter, make models with my son and
travel. No suprise I also like Star Trek, Buffy & Angel. My favorite
film is 'The Name of the Rose', I am a friend of 'Shakesperes Globe'
in London and one of the best books I have read recently was
Neal Stephensons Cryptonomican. I am also a Linux fan but have to
use Micro$oft products some of the time. Every year we go to the Venice
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am sure that ET life exists - I just think that the numbers of stars and
planets out there are so huge that the chance of conditions for life starting
twice must have occured. I doubt we will find life in the next 50 years
but then I think that technology will make us look back on the year 2001 as
if it was the dark ages with the increased pace of technological growth.
Looking for life will depend on what technology becomes available but today
SETI is as good a start as any. The Human Race is not ready to face this
so I feel that a discovery that confirms life but is too far away for the
current technology is the best first step.
We should send a signal in the form of some sort of wave or particle
emission. I would go for universal mathematical constant values, these
will be recognised by the same sort of analysis we are doing here on Earth
I run this because I have lots aof spare cpu and it makes an interesting
screen saver, I also feel that the model of distributed computing is a
powerful one that should be used for this and other things such as
virus and gnome work
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