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| I am 35 years old and live in the SE of England, working as a Electronics Design Engineer (with a taste for IT). SETI seems like a very good benchmark tool when testing PC's, so I use it all the time. The idea that a large community of users can assist such a massive computing task is an excellent one. Maybe the 'big-boys' of the computing world, such as HP, SUN, IBM, Intel, AMD, etc would like to donate equipment clusters to assist in this task ? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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We can't be the only intelligent beings in the universe, so other life must exist in some form. I don't know how we would discover it, or if there would be any benefits, as the communications barrier could be too big to bridge before either party loses interest.
The idea of transmitting a beacon for others to find us sounds like a good idea, but there are too many unknowns - what frequency, where to aim it, pulse shapes and powers, etc. It would take a long time to pinpoint us in amongst the space noise.
I run SETI at both home and work, whenever the PC is switched on, it's number crunching ! |
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