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I am a 27 year old student of electrical engineering with a main focus on computer science from Germany graduating very soon I hope.
Interests include computing, hiking, surfing (both the net and on that blue fluid stuff), listening to good music (mainly girl power/punk rock at the moment- if any of you know the German film "Bandits" that's the kind of music I like). Other music I like: Josh Joplin Group, Lifehouse, Puddles of Mud.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) I like the idea of intelligent life out there. There are just too many stars and too many planets for it not to be there. Perhaps some intelligent life form really planted seeds on several planets like was proposed in one of the last seasons of Star Trek: The next generation. That way, aliens may not be all that different to us.
2) I haven't really thought about this. But we generate so many EM-Sources at the moment, it should be possible to find us. But with increasing use of spread sprectrum technology, people going away from terrestrial TV to cable, it may be increasingly hard to find us.
3) I run seti at home on my home linux router. Somehow it has a bug that it totally crashes when it is idle and you suddenly get high network traffic, has something to do with intel network cards under 2.4.x linux. If the server is busy, it runs like a charm. And all it is used for is as a router, firewall, small in home file and print server. So I have a lot of spare CPU cycles which really shouldn't be wasted.
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