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I am 30 years old, working in a family bussiness in Argentina, and an intense computer fan since I can remember. As a matter of fact I could say it's been the one hobby that has lasted throughout all my adult life.
I've had a thing for astronomy for a long time, a fascination every time I look up to the stars. On Feb 2002 I got my first telescope, and after seeing the movie Contact for tenth time I casually ran into SETI@home while browsing the net. Five minutes later I was crunching my first workunit.
Today I am running it on 6 computers, and tonight I am reaching the 1000 workunit milestone. I am almost obsessed with the progress of each machine, to the point of checking my SetiQueue web interface several times a day. I also run VNC to control the 3 PCs at home, should anything go wrong.
Its been really fun so far, I've spent countless hours working and perfecting my setup, and many sleep hours in front of my computers.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am certainly not sure if there is inteligent life out there, and that's the whole point of this project, and that is also my drive. I am concious this effort will take very long, if ever, to produce any results, and I have none the less found deeper significance in the work I am contributing to, finding reasons much deeper than simple computing tasks.
I fantasize on making this a liftime endeavour; I see myself explaining thing to my kids the day I have them, and sharing with them the overwhelming sense of smallness I feel everytime I look up to the sky and try to figure out the inmenseness of the universe we inhabit all by ourselves, or not... |
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