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I was 81 on August 13, 2003 and I hope to live long enough to be certain there are ETs. I cannot imagine a universe as vast as the one we can see (and who knows just how vast that is)and we, on this Planet Earth, are the only intelligent beings in it.
I started programming Mainframes in Utica, New York for GE in 1960. Our Mainframe was first the GE200 and it had all of 8K of memory. Remember 8K is (8 * 1024 = 8192)now not very large when you consider you can hardly run programs now in 8MB. Then we had 16K of memory and we looked around at each other and wondered what would be do with the extra 8K -- and that upper 8K had to be programmed with "indirect addressing" to get to it. I programmed from 1960 to 1987 when I retired at 65. Then I worked as an Independent Contractor on the Internet/Web for Compuserve from 1980 to 1995 when I switched and became an Independent Contractor for The Microsoft Network (MSN) from 1995 until 1999. Now I do not have a Contract and I suppose I am truly retired at 79.
Except, I run the SETI program 24 hours a day and consider that my job now.
I've been a widow since 1979 and lived alone with one cat or another and one computer or another; currently I have a Lady gray tabby cat named "Pepe" and she and my computers are my life, which includes SETI@home.
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I registered for SETI@home in March 16, 2000 when I only had a 133 Pentium computer and it would take ages to compute one Unit for Seti. In 2001 I was able to purchase a new computer and, believe it or not, I wanted a faster computer to process the SETI Units from Arecibo Radio Observatory because I believe so firmly that there are other civilizations in the Universe.
I think the SETI@home project is excellent and was necessary to get enough power to truly do a good job in analyzing data. I also believe it brings a sense of doing something worthwhile to the individuals who participate.
If we aren't sending our own signal than I believe that we should definitely. I really don't know what the dangers might be. We have many movies that have predicted what they might be and I think that most of our religious culture (at least in the United States) is afraid to even THINK there may be other civilizations because it would go against their belief in "special creation." I don't have that problem and believe we should definitely continue with the SETI and SETI@home project should continue with Funds from the United States Government. |
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