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| Personal background |
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I'm a mainframe software developer for a large software company. Basically, you might say that I'm a dinosaur, as the products I work on are written predominantly using IBM 390 assembler.
As part of an attempt to "undinosaur" myself, I've been experimenting with setting up a small lan network at home. The website link you see in my listing is hosted on that lan. It may be a little slow (thanks to ADSL), but represents my little portal to the world.
My Seti operation involves a Seti queue server running on my main server. I have Seti-Service running two copies of the NT command line program on both processors of two different MP boxes, and a third machine running the GUI version.
When I'm not buried in computers of one size or another, I train and compete with my 4 legged kids in K9 agility.
If there any time at all left over, I enjoy reading a good book. Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts, and Larry bond are favorite authors. I also read every Star Wars book printed as soon as they come out.
Happy Seti crunching to all. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, I do believe life exists beyond earth.
We'll discover it when they think we've advanced far enough to be able to participate in a responsible way in the galaxy.
Hard to imagine what the results of such a discovery might be... It boggles the mind.
2. Yes, I think we should attempt to make outside contact.
As to what to send... That's way beyond my scientific capacity to imagine. I think first, we would need to send some sort of key to enable them to understand our message. Then, the best thing would be to describe ourselves in an objective and unbiased way, including both good and bad points. I think finally, we might want to include some kind of method or basis for returning our contact. The one down side to all of this is that the various governments would probably screw it all up and start shooting at who/whatever showed up.
3. I run Seti for a number of reasons. First is scientific curiosity about what we might be able to find out there. Second is professional curiosity about the processing involved, and the networking considerations in doing a cooperative effort like this. Third, I do it because otherwise, the cycles would simply be wasted.
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