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| I'm a twenty year old CIS student from Omaha, Nebraska. I enjoy computers, Astronomy, scanning the radio waves(SW, LW), blasting the Ramones or Man or Astroman, but most of all chilling out on my roof late at night. I have six computers, but only one runs SETI@HOME well enough. I have SETI@home running on one other computer(that takes 130 hours to complete a WU) It usually takes my 300mhz PowerMac 24 hours to complete a work unit, so I keep it running 24-7. Running Linux helps because I can run SETI@home in the background without slowing my computer to a crawl while I do other things. So even though my work unit count may be low, I have been running SETI@home for more than three thouasand hours. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Shure. I dont know how long it will take. One of the benefits would be that normal everyday humans would have to think about something out of the norm. Maybe theyll go out and look at the stars instead of wasting away in front of the T.V. As far as the dangers go, I cant think of anything so different from what has already been said in the scifi books that it is worth saying.
2. Shur, why not? As far as we know, they may only be listening too.
3. SETI@home is a great idea. It does more than prosses data, it gets people interested. I use SETI@home because I like the screensavor and I like the fact that my computer is not slacking off when Im out or sleeping. But most of all, I like knowing that my computer is scanning the radio waves from space looking for extraterrestrials. After running SETI@home for thousands of hours, I joined the Planetary Society in order to further the effort. |
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