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| Personal background |
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| I live in Georgia about thirty minutes east of Atlanta. I am currently working on my Mechanical Engineering degree at Georgia Tech and hope to be out of school by 2003. I have always been interested in computers and currently have two that I built myself in my private network. One of the machines (a 866MHz PIII) is running Linux and acts as my firewall, router, mail server, DNS server, DHCP server, web server and ftp server. The other machine (566 Celeron II) runs Windows 98 and BeOS 5 Pro. I spend alot of time doing work in Linux, and spend very little time in Windows. Because of this, I usually leave my 566MHz machine in BeOS running SETI and occasionally run SETI in Linux when I'm not around. Either way, I don't like to leave my computers sitting around doing nothing. I would rather donate that CPU time to scientific research or use it to compile software. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. At this point, I don't know if extraterrestrial life exists. I haven't seen any hard facts proving that they do or do not exist. From a scientific point of view, it is possible that life may exists in other gallaxies, especially those which closely resemble our own.
2. I see no reason why humans should not transmit a "beacon" into outer space. We do it every day without even realizing it. TV and radio signals which have enough power to escape the earth's atmosphere travel continously through space. I do believe, however, that the beacon should be something that is easy to understand and should not contain language of any sort. The signal should contain symbols or some kind of mathematical data that could be understood by anyone that could recieve the signal.
3. I run SETI@home because I hate wasting CPU time. With two computers that stay on all the time, there is no reason I should leave them doing nothing when they could be doing something productive. Also I totally support the SETI@home project. Not only do we get the chance to help scientists possibly contact extraterrestrial life, we are also getting a chance to help them discover new information about other parts of space. My only suggestion would be to attempt to get new users. If more and more users became available, the time to analyze data would fall sharply. |
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