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I'm 31 and self-employed as a multimedia-programmer.
As of May 30th, instead of a Pentium 2, 266mhz (overclocked) I am running a AMD Athlon XP 1800 on an asus a7v333 mobo at 1.53 ghz.. and in the off hours, it's all yours! Just looove what it does to my average worktime ;) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It surprises me time and time again how few people actually care about what happens in a 100 years or longer. There is still no sense of humanity as one race, one society, one organism. Decisions are made every year that will have an effect on our planet for many lifetimes to come. Yet few care about more than what makes their own life just a little bit better, for a little while longer.
I am not judging you, though. Or at least I am trying not to, as I am much the same as everyone else. But history will judge us on what we did, not what we said we wanted to do. So if I ever have children, I will try to teach them to take the long term view. Not by telling them what to do or how to do it in every detail, but by trying to open their eyes to the universe they live in, the planet they walk on, and the creatures they share it with.
That is what space exploration as a whole, and seti@home in it's own small way, does for me: it is a constant reminder that whether or not we find ET, we are not alone. We never were. It is a symbol of mankind's curiosity, willingness to learn and of it's ignorance as well. But there lies the beauty of it: once you realise how little you know, it is so much easier to be open and to learn.
So there is my motivation for running this little program on my little computer. Partially because I want ET to phone home, mostly because I want to remind myself that there is more to life than me. |
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