| Personal background |
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I M.D. for a living in Illinois and work with ancient ALR multiprocessing
machines by night. The old Quad 6 and 6 X 6 are great at crunching units
albeit a bit slow. They also keep the computer room warm on a cold
midwestern winter night. Only thing I really miss is DSL service which
is not available here. I use Linux on the boxes as it is the only thing
that is economical to run on a multiprocessor with more than two cpus. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am a seti skeptic. It there is E.T. out there, the distances are so great
our chances of any sort of communication is nil. We have only been ejecting
electromagnetic radiation out into space for roughly 100 years. Imagine,
someone picking up some early morse code from earth. What would they think?
Also, if we find a signal that emanates from an intelligent life form, the
signal might have originated from thousands of years ago and the civilization
may be exstinct.
In spite of what the "Star Trekians" believe, I do not think anyone has figured
out how to smash the time/space continuum. I do believe that if we do not look,
we will never "know". Therefore that is precisely the reason I run setiathome.
If a signal is found it would be most exciting and might spawn a new field of
academic endeavor. P.E.T.S. Paleo-Extra-Terrestial-Study. :) |
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