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I'm from a small town in central Kentucky. Not much happening here so I often look to the skies. Since childhood I've been facinated with those lights in the sky that never seem to look the same each night. Often even during the day when I was a kid in the 70's, I would look to the sky trying to "see" skylab. I can remember using my "walkie talkie" to try and contact the space station. No reply! In my teens a friend got a pair of binoculars for his birthday and things were a bit closer. Seeing what I thought was "a" star turn into a double star was pretty neat, and the milky way never looked more milky. My twenties saw me getting a cheap WalMart telescope (around $50 US) and resolving the bright "stars" into the sphere shapes that planets are. Venus looked like a tiny crescent moon and Saturn resembled a white B B with a line through it. Amazing!! It's 1999. Can't wait to see what the 2000s bring!
p.s. Is it just me, or is there a black hole on my wall??
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I'm now in my mid 30's and I'm considering purchasing a good scope. I cant wait to "see" at the next level.
On the subject of intelligent life beyond Earth......I feel only a fool would say "no way". I think maybe they have the same restraints as we do for communication. Distance distance distance.
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It's now almost mid-2011 and I'm in my mid 40's. The end of the world didn't happen (again) and I'm getting older still. Back in 1999 when I first downloaded seti@home, I was newly divorced, kids lived with me only and I had just purchased my first computer with a CPU measured in MHz instead of Hz. RAM was in the double digits (MB) and I had a nice, fast 56K modem and a fresh new internet account! Man, have things changed. I have 100 times the RAM I had then, my dual core CPU is exponentially faster, and instead of downloading around 5KB/s, I download at 1,100KB/s.
YET ANOTHER EDIT: It's now 2015 and I'm still looking towards the heavens. My internet speed has evolved to over 60MB/s, I've gone to a quad-core CPU, just 6 gig of RAM and a decent video card with a gig of video RAM on it. A far cry from my dial-up days, and an even further cry from the time I sent my first email and instant message, back in 1983 during college at UK. The first computer had a 13" color monitor. I now have a nice 27" which works well as a one person entertainment/computing unit. I'm now looking forward to New Horizons reaching Pluto!! I can't wait for the close-ups!!!
I don't have tons of numbers with regards to seti@home. I've gone a year or two (now 2018 means many years) at a time without running the program. But I always seem to come back to it, crunching numbers in the hope of discovery, not for me, but for the earth and its population as a whole. I'll finish out this decade (EDIT: and all the rest of the decades) of my life, and then maybe do another update of my seti@home profile, if I'm still around and if this project is as well. - (Well, late 2018 and doing another edit. WHO reads this shit??...haha.)
AND another edit: I'm53, 118 Mb/s internet speed which equals over 14,000 KB/s if I compare to my old dial-up connection (SHIT!), and a new ASUS mobo with a decent 1050ti GPU, an SSD hard drive and 16 GB of RAM. Still trying to help out with the search. Here's looking to the skies!
EDIT: 2023, 320 Mb/s, late 50's here in KY and still loving space and astronomy.
One other thing, that picture of me on this profile is VERY old....dates to around 1999. Funny seeing myself back then. Three grand-girlies and grown children later, here I am at seti@home once again. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well I think ET life probably does exist. Whether or not humans discover them or they discover us is a roll of the dice. Benefits or dangers??? Who knows. If it happens then things will evolve as they must.
Sure, send a beacon...although aren't we already sending many out right now? Any RF transmission will do. Doesn't even have to contain anything. Wouldn't a carrier signal do? Ask an expert...not me..hahaha.
I run SETI@home because its cool and I want to be a part of something. Also to help out mankind's progress, but mostly because its a cool thing to do. It fits my personality. I think any space or technology related stuff is cool! |
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