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| Personal background |
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University student in Wasington state studying linguistics. I'm 22. Enjoy gaming, researching all kinds of stuff from astronomy to particle physics, reading, etc.
If I had the choice to study everything known to man, I'd do it. Choosing one or two majors to direct my studies in is unsatisfying, but you gotta play by the rules.
So as a hobby, I study physics, astronomy, computer science, and a whole lot of other things. I find it all incredibly interesting.
So in class one day, I heard about this project and decided to give it a looksy. Looked fun. So I've got a couple computers with the program on now - a little over 11GHz that I'm donating and I have a couple more GHz sitting in a closet.
Got my friends into this program as well, as we all liked it, so we started our own team. ^_^
We're flying up through the ranks lately, and there's no sign of stopping yet XD
Anyways, donating idle clock cycles is easy enough, but every little bit helps, right? ^_^ |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run it because I honestly believe that the chances of their being intelligent life relatively near our solar system are very high. All the equations and factors determining how many intelligent civilizations that could be existing right now or within a couple million years of us time-wise point to high chances. Considering it would take a couple thousand years for even the nearest planets to send out radio signals, I don\\'t see why we should limit our searches to civilizations existing concurrently with ours ^_^
A discovery is a discovery.
I think the idea of using the processing power of the individual volunteer users in the world is totally awesome. Who knows how much free raw number crunching SETI is getting for this? I think the project needs to keep going. It\\'s a relatively low cost, essential resource for our planet.
Only suggestion I would have (its possible I haven\\'t found it yet) is an FAQ of some sort that gives layman\\'s descriptions of the technical terms the users see in the screensaver process. Gaussions and fourier transforms and the like. It would be nice to have an accessible guide to learn about what your computer is computing ^_^
Thanks, and keep it up. |
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