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| Personal background |
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| I am a professional software dveloper who has a keen interest in Extraterrestrial Intelligence. I also have interests in Artificial Life, Deterministic Chaos, and all kinds of computer related research. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am hopefull that other civilizations are present in our neck of the woods, however I think that SETI is an important endevour regardless. Not to look would be a crime, as even if there is only a slim chance of finding anything the payoff would be huge.
I don't think we need to be transmitting, as there we are transmitting beacons in the form of military radar already. I think the first stage of contact is being aware of each other. Only once we know where to send a more powerfull directed signal is there any real point in trying to broadcast. Even then we will have to wait generations for any chance of a reply. This is definitly a long term game.
I think the SETI Project was also a great experiment in Distrinuted Computing. The only flaw I think is that it had a core. I think a distrinuted computing project which has a network at the core would be more robust. By this I mean have several locations around the world handle results, so that if one server goes down there are back ups. It does however show how effective distributed computing can be. |
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