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| Personal background |
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| I live in Washington State, in the US. I like to get out into the back country often, it sort of brings things down to earth, and puts my life into perspective. I also like to ride fast motorcycles...fast! I've worked in the IT industry since my early 20s, for around 40 years, and have since retired! I started out as a technician on military hardware, and software development soon after... I wrote 6502 assembly for my Apple (get the picture...), and later as the higher level languages found compilers on PCs, I moved to C. I started writing HTML based apps in 1995, and finished by managing large, distributed software development projects. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I read about SETI@Home in a newspaper article in May of 1999, and downloaded the app shortly thereafter. I was attracted to the collaborative nature of the processing model, and the fact the project had no true national borders - it is a planetary application. I have up to 5 PCs running the application at any given time.
I have to believe there are other life forms on other planets. Contact or detection will probably be serendipitous, but I hope happens within my lifetime (next 40 years). As with most revolutionary scientific discovery, a dramatic adjustment to human perspective will have to take place. Hopefully we as a species will be enlightened enough to accept the discovery, and use it to aid our own evolutionary growth. |
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