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| Personal background |
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I am from Essex, England. I work in IT Technical Support, and apart from being a hassle looking after 800 Microsoft computers, theres always enough resources to do research and development. I have been successfully converted to a Linux geek, and have recently been quoted in Computer Weekly as to saying 'I'm a geek and proud of it!'.
At home I have seven computers running Seti@Home, and five of these are running 24/7. I remember the days when a unit would take a few days on a 486, now I have a bank of Pentium II computers doing not much else but Seti. Naturally, I run the client on Linux, favouring towards the SuSe distribution. I hope to aquire some more PII computers in the near future, thanks to Microsoft software being bloat-ware, the Seti client and Linux run perfectly on the apparently redundant hardware.
My other interests are Electronics, Amateur Radio (M3ohm), Meteorology, Humanities, History (World War II), and German.
It's amazing what different people say when wearing the Seti@Home T-Shirt around work! The Seti logo has been called a few things too. Most people are deeply impressed with the operation and leave wondering what is out there. I still haven't been given the go ahead to run Seti on all those 800 computers - but I'm working on it!! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I like the phrase "If we were the only life in the universe, wouldn't it be a waste of space". I believe there is something out there, and maybe they know we are here. As humans, we see ourselves as being advanced and intelligent species. I don't know how mankind would react to the knowledge that we are hundereds, maybe thousands or millions of years behind another life form.
Mankind can only see what was within their own lifetime. We can research from contemporary documents and information left behind from the generations before us, but there is no proof that these actually happened,if they haven't been seen within our lifetime. I believe in the ideas conceived in The Matrix, whereas our universe could actually be a computer simulation. The possibilities for our own civilisation to create such a simulated world are high, with the Earth Simulation computer system and the new proposed 65,000 processor computer on the way, the processing power is here - it just needs the program to be written. This could explain the silence that is out in the universe - we are alone.
I am interested in the Egyptians and the complexities of their pyramids, the lost city of Atlantis and their supposed technology. How did these early civilisations create such structures and inventions that would today be a miracle for us to complete. Were they given help from above? Were the biblical events actually another civilisation creating a structure in order to keep the human race evolving and busy?
I run Seti@Home becasue I believe it takes all of us to work together to find the answer. It would be of benifit to me to have the result in my lifetime, it upsets me to feel that I just can't pop back 100 years from now to see how things are progressing. I want to tell my children and their children that I spent my early life looking for what could be their not so distant neighbours.
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