| Personal background |
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I have been running seti@home since 10:04, 5th November, 1998, which is
coincidentally all but 3 years, on an assortment of PC and SPARC hardware. I
remain astonished by the number of work units some people have managed to
run at home - I rarely get better than one every 40 hours or so. I'm presently
running it on six CPUs, mostly elderly SPARCs.
So why do I do this? Because, despite Fermi's Paradox ("If they are out there,
why aren't they here?") I feel it in my bones that we cannot *possibly*
be alone - the arrogance of that position offends me. Despite a lifetime
of reading science fiction, this is the nearest I am ever going to get
to being "out there", and the Seti@Home team are more than welcome to the
CPU cycles.
Well Done, them! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes. I expect we will discover it by means of a search such as Seti@Home
or one of the other SETI searches. Benefits and dangers? Wow. How much time
have you got?
2. We already are. All those "Who Loves Lucy" shows are galloping through
the Universe at 186,000 miles per second.
3. I think I already answered this one. |
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