I am 14 years old and live in New Zealand. I joined SETI because I saw it in the Guiness Book of Records and decided I wanted to be part of "the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at home". My real average is about 4 hours 10 mins, but I ran my old compaq. It recently died so my average is coming down slowly.
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