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| Personal background |
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Hi.
Physicist? not really. Mathematician? denying my own diploma. Engineer? only on my business card. Political Activist, then? part time, at the most. Musician, maybe? wannabe, but pretty amateur. Photographer? I take decent pictures, but not more than that. Diver? Cat lover? Essayist? Autodidact? Whatever.
I'm 31, living in Israel, working for a hi-tech company making ultra-fast wireless chipsets. All the rest I do on my own time, including travelling, phylosophizing, reading everything I can lay my hands on, listening to anything I can put in my stereo, and using my computer to run distributed-computing projects.
Been a SETI@Home user since 2000 and now a proud member of the BOINC community (including Einstein, LHC and two CPDN projects). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I started running SETI@Home as a nostalgic effort towards my days as a teenage sci-fi buff. I still read a lot of that stuff (old and new, no discriminations) but nowadays I don't believe little green men will come prancing down my walkway.
More important, in my oppinion, is the sense of planet-spanning cooperation and solidarity that comes from such projects. Especially when they are aimed at General Causes, and not toward some personal (or corporate) gain. If people dedicated more of their time to thinking how linked and connected and dependent on each other we really all are, we may have a slightly better chance of survival as a race. And maybe one day we will be the little green men prancing down someone else's walkway.
We still need to remember, though, that the privilege of belonging to this kind of community is only granted to very few of the very rich upon this Earth. If you ever walked into a kindergarten in Somalia, and saw a SETI@Home screensaver on the UNICEF-donated PC, it was probably installed by a western volunteer, not a local. A sobering thought, I hope.
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