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| Personal background |
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I am a full time computer consultant and never cease to be amazed at the innovative work that is happening in this field.
At the moment, I am accumulating (recycling) old PCs and dedicating their CPUs to this project for want of another productive use. There are currently 5 RedHat Linux based boxes and a few Win2k systems trying to help boost my ranking. The CPU time being dedicated by some of the big players like Sun and IBM is a little disheartening and make it impossible to really push up near the leaders.
Congratulations to the SETI team for getting this project off the ground. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I really doubt that ET exists, and I appreciate the systematic way in which the SETI project is going about proving it. Of course, if we do see a nice strong signal, it is likely from 100,000 light years away and the civilisation would have polluted themselves out of existance by now and definitely by the time we could send a message back to them.
Maybe it is possible to travel faster than light, but it seems unlikely that we will get around time dialation problems. If ET visits its probably not worth it for him to return home. He would have aged 20 years but his home plannet would have aged 20,000 years so who will he report to?
A suggestion to get faster results - how about publishing the client code so we can have a think about some faster algorithyms? |
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