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| Personal background |
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| I'm in the central New Jersey Area of the USA. This human is a 50 year old VP of engineering for a software development company. These days I spend most of my time creating designs for our software products, but I used to like to spend my time hiking, doing photography, reading SciFI/Fantasy. I still have philosophical discussions with my friends here about Bush (why anyone else is better), terrorists, congress, education and so on. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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08-Jul-2004
Locating some other intelligent life in the cosmos would precipitate major changes to human existance. Once other life is located, perhapes some of the differences that now cause strife between groups of humans on earth would seem less important. Of course, this would probably cause humans to identify differences between 'The Aliens'and 'Us' which would lead to 'Earth for Humans' only groups and so on. I didn't say all the major changes would be for the better.
I think the project is a good ideal to accomplish a massive task with the least amount of Goverment Funding Possible. In the US, most citizens don't see the real value of this unless someone could promise the Aliens would bring the cures for cancer, AIDs and everything else. These same people would worry about the Aliens bringing some new illnesses with them however.
The BOINC SETI version needs to stabilize and distribute clients with some on the features everyone seems to desire:
> Keep records of all completed work for display on PC (similar to BOINCview)
> Gather/keep info from all computers on LAN
> Display User/Team Stats
> Passworded Screen Savers w/Pretty Graphics Display (Windows)
> Screen Saver Option to just display star map of all completed WUs
- Much less CPU consumed, probably no need to 'blank'
- Display clock, maybe state of all nodes in LAN
- Blink active WU's and other similar options
> Unix Clients:
- Don't assume a user has access to a compiler
- Some sites will allow SETI, but not a compiler on the node
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