| Personal background |
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My name is Stefan Holmes. I'm 28 and I live in Shrewsbury in England.
My recently (as of September 2005) upgraded PC churns through work units quite nicely.
Current relevant spec:
Athlon64 3700 (sometimes overclocked to just under 2.8GHz, the equivalent of FX-57 speed).
2x512MB Corsair XL (2-2-2-5) DDR. (2.5-3-3-7 when at 250MHz).
Abit AN8 Ultra motherboard.
2048:256Kb up:down ADSL broadband.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do I run SETI@home?
Easy: I'd love for there to be (benign!) intelligent life elsewhere in this quiet little galaxy. Perhaps we can drop by for a visit one day, chill out and swap jokes.
Views on this project...
Ambitious. This limited little project could provide the most astounding news which the human race could ever hope to receive. Still, my feeling is that it would take an incredible stroke of luck for us to actually catche a glimpse of an artificially generated signal from thousands of light-years away.
Perhaps the next project will be funded better and be able to collect higher quality data and harness more computational power.
In the meantime, I will still hold on to a small amount of hope for a positive result.
Do I have a suggestion for the project?
Hmm. A better funded project would benefit everyone. Perhaps more 'scope time, perhaps even a better set of 'scopes or a satellite based receiver network.
People seem to be more than willing to donate CPU cycles to this project. I wonder if they could be persuaded to sign up for a $1/month PayPal subscription? With more fund coming in to the project, perhaps external funding might be more forthcoming and more voluminous. |
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