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Personal background |
I live in St Petersburg, Fla, and in the same home for the past 44 1/2 years.
I am 71 years old, a retired Postmaster. I enjoy my wife, Mary Lou, our three grandsons, our son Tom and his wife Amanda, butterfly gardening; I am Treasurer of our Neighborhood Association; Hospice volunteering, St Petersburg Police Department volunteering,.....in no particular order.
I have upgraded my computer over the years since I first signed up with SETI, from a 386 to my present AMD Athlon XP. All my upgrades have been scratch-built; no off-the-shelf pcs for me.
I recently moved from SETI 3.03 to the command line version, and now run two programs simultaneously, splitting my cpu time between them. I have seen my unit runtime drop from 12-plus hours to approximately 5 hours per unit, thus effectively giving me a daily total of 2 units per day.
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Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
To Question #1: It is my hope that there is, in fact, extraterrestrials out there, and we may someday make contact with them, to our mutual benefit. Alternately, they may be so far advanced from us, that we may become as insects to them, or just an annoyance to be eliminated.
To Question #2: I am ambivalent; possibly afraid of the consequences of contact with a far superior culture. But, I suppose, we must push on: send a beacon, attempt to make contact, and hope and pray for the best outcome.
Life on this earth is, as I see it, increasingly difficult to sustain, given the continued overpopulation and pollution. Another earth-like world may be the only hope for survival of this human race.
To Question #3: My hope for SETI is what we who run it anticipate: eventual contact with ET...with or without the magic finger that glows in the dark!
I believe the SETI project is currently the best hope and means of making that ET contact.
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