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| I speak many human languages, have studied literature in graduate school and have been studying communication systems most of my life. I have been preparing for the day when our success or failure to communicate with an alien species will depend on our ability to rapidly learn their communication system, which we have to assume may be oblique at best. "Tim, his arms open wide!" In the process, I have been the regional coordinator for Hindu aid workers in South America, and I have worked for the Japanese government analyzing the effect of antipersonnel landmine pollution on the ability of post war victims in Asia to re-create a sustainable village economy. I have learned that we are not tasked to talk with whales or dolphins or large headed fellows who would "serve man," that is the gravy, but primary is to communicate with the greatest aliens of all; our fellow humans. What a limitless adventure! My anniversay with Seti@home is September 27th and I have never tired of attending to the three computers I have running the program at home. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I don't give a darn about aliens, I care about distributed computing and this world scale cooperation that we are engaging in here. Our arrayed computers are as magnificent as the pyramids in terms of societal achievement. We are talking to each other! Do you see how important this cross-border joint effort is as a model for our future world cooperation? |
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