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| Personal background |
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I'm a (almost) 17 year old male. I live in upstate New York, I attend a loacal highschool where I sleep in most of my classes except physics and math. Mainly I'm intrested in physics and other such things, pneumatic cannons (and other launching devices) intrest me and I am hoping to construct several this summer. I hope to attend college at RIT or MIT to study a branch of physics. I enjoy kyaking, bowling, sailing, gaming and reading science fiction and fiction. The books that have most effected my life are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (a five book triliogoly) and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I also enjoy wrighting and putting witty remarks in my essays to annoy my English teacher.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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If intellgient alien life did not exist in the universe it would defy probability. If humans spread into the solar system and start permanant bases/factories/colonies on planets and moons then we will be much more likley to discover any intelligent alien life that exists much sooner than if we stay confined to this planet. If the alien race is anthing like humans are then we will face great danger from them. If they have evolved beyond us or are of a different species/race then we will face much less danger (providing of course that they are different from us for the better). Humans must transmit a beacon of sorts for alien civilizations to find us so that our culture may mix with theirs, many of the innovations and periods of cultural betterment have come at a time when cultures were mixing. We should send information giving our posisition in relation to other known suns. We should also send common numbers such ar our understanding of pi, and other mathematical concepts, the beacon should also send out a radio signal of prime numbers, to show that any radio signal isn't random giberish. I run SETI@home to give my coputer something useful to do, knowing that my 512 mb of RAM aren't needed to play games with and surf the web. I think that we need to expand the project out into space, where much larger radio telescopes can be constructed at much less cost. For more information on this read Adrian Berry's book The Next Ten Thousand Years.
As an improvement I would give the client more options such as the option to dedicate more memmory to processing data and for what hours to process more than others, from 8-3 on weekdays when many students are in school and others are at their places of employment, their computers could process data with all their RAM instead of only using a small amount or sitting idle. |
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