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| Personal background |
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As the Direct of IT for Portage la Prairie Mutual Ins., I have directed the idle time of our small fleet of computers to the SETI project. A member of The Planetary Society for a number of years, I'm an avid science buff particularly in the areas of space science and cosmology.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI presents an opportunity to work on several important fronts:
1/ The search for ET. Confirmation that humankind is not the only sentient being in this universe is the most critical evidence to combat, in Carl Segan's words, "A Demon Haunted World". Our here-to-now concentric view of existence must be addressed if we expect to address the rapidly mounting challenges to our species survival on this or any planetoid.
2/ On more short term benefits; the SETI project represents a monumental step forward in information processing. The project itself can utilize extremely massive computational power making it an ideal project to provide a kind of "proof-of-concept" towards harnessing the computational power currently running "idle". Even today there are several other worthy projects that have sprung to life building on the success of the SETI@HOME project.
3/ There is nothing like a good challenge to rally people and SETI through the SETI@HOME program brings many like-minded and some not so like-minded together. The spin-offs are great with people who would never have discussed scientific and mathematical concepts listening to a wide range of related topics from radio waves to star systems to galaxies.
At the end of the day I DO know the final answer - its 42 :) |
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