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I am just another guy looking up into the night sky and wondering what is out there. I also love jazz and John Coltrane most of all of jazz players! Won't go much further into it - I could write for days. :)
I run SETI on two home PC's - a 400MHz, 64MB HP Pavilion running Win95 and a brand spanking new Dell Dimension 8200 2.0 GHz system with 512 MB of RAM and running (patched like mad) Windows XP Pro. I also run SETI on my office PC - an HP Vectra with a 2.0GHz processor and 512MB of RAM running Windows XP Pro (also furiously patched.)
Looking into getting a laptop that I would connect to my home network that would run Linux. Now all I have to do is justify its' purchase for running something besides SETI!
Ah, what the heck, SETI is enuf, right? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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There are two basic questions here - does intelligent life exist? And if so, can we detect it? I think the answers to these questions are respectively, "yes" and "possibly - but it will take time and not be easy".
We have been transmitting junk out into space for half a century anyway, so there is no reason to get paranoid and not want to transmit a signal beacon for other sentient beings. The cat's already out of the bag people, and it's wandering around the galaxy....now is there anybody (alive) out there listening?
The idea of the vast distributed power of the SETI project is a fantastic one - I trust we will (are actually) be seeing this used for all kinds of issues important to man.
I really don't have any suggestions other than to suggest that this project continue - if we ever do find a signal out there, I think it will take a long and concerted effort to do so - a couple of years ain't goin' to do it!
Thank you very much and arrivederci wherever you is! |
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