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I own a small NY, USA engineering and design firm that specializes in the manufacture of small machines and parts for motorsports.
I have a number of computers on a network all running SETI@home, including some Suse Linux machines that use the non-graphical client.
I even have a 486 66Mhz machine that just barely gets a work unit done in time before it expires! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think anyone or any religion that dismisses extraterrestial life out of hand is either myopic, ignorant, or just plain scared. What incredible ego it must take to still harbor the notion that the Earth is the center of the universe.
Unfortunately, the SETI project is like finding traces of a 50,000 year old needle in a billion haystacks. Or maybe more. This project has taught me prefixes like peta, exa, zetta, and yotta. Even if I understand the mathmatical magnitudes, my feeble terran brain cannot fit around the real dimensions.
However, I feel we must continue to play this lottery. Suppose some guy with a half-busted 486 *does* find an intelligent signal. Even if such a "message" is a million years old, such a discovery will certainly change our religion, concepts, philosophy, and our spiritual regard as to our place in this universe.
I'm gonna keep looking as best as I can. With luck I might live another 50 or 60 years, and I can think of nothing more exciting than somebody confirming even "beep beep beep" in my lifetime -- from the other side of existence.
Good Luck to us all.
-steve |
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