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Hi,
my nickname is ugly_bugger, and there are some out there that would agree that this is a fairly accurate description of yours truly!
Anyway, my real name is Richard, I was born in 1966 (yep, same year as England won the World Cup but don't read too much into that!), and I live in Telford, Shropshire, UK, with my wife Julie and 3 cats.
I have just upgraded the PC from an AMD Duron 700 to an AMD XP1800 so that should help speed up the number crunching for SETI@home a little, and I also have it running on a Duron 1.3GHz machine in parallel
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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What do I think about SETI@home?
I think it is a great project that everyone should join in with. It costs nothing to join, you get an unusual screen saver FREE OF CHARGE, and you are actually doing something constructive without having to work at it. How many other projects can you think of that give you all that?
Do I believe in E.T.?
Would I be taking part in this project if I didn't? But seriously, we are constantly being told that the Universe is filled with an almost incalculable number of stars, so the theory is that there must be somewhere that has a planetary system like ours supporting life. However, I also believe it is possible that alien life may not be carbon based as we are but mat be based on another chemical element such as silicon for example. Whereas we need water to survive, why couldn't E.T. be desperate for a good cool glass of Amonia instead?
Will we find E.T.?
I would hope so, preferably before I die, but the real question is "Does E.T. want to talk to us?"... If there are lifeforms out there much more intelligent than ourselves, that would suggest that they may be more enlightened as well, and if they are so enlightened, what would they want with a bunch of ignorant savages such as us?
Should we send out a beacon?
Yes, if we want to be found. There are those amongst us though who would rather we were not found because if E.T. comes calling he may not be a pleasant little wrinkled brown creature with big, round eyes, and a light bulb in the end of his finger, who knows how to get the telephone operator to make REALLY LONG DISTANCE CALLS for FREE!!! He could turn out to be some scum-sucking psychopath from planet Zarg where it is the height of good manners to bite off your guests head the first (and only) time you meet! Personally, I think we are OK on that one.
Good luck and happy searching.
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