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| Personal background |
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I'm 17, and have been participating in Seti@Home for over 2 years now. I first read about it in PCFormat and 100 'lucky' users could participate. Then it was open to the general public, and I endeavoured to keep submitting units as much as possible. I didn't run S@H for a while while I was using Linux, and it then hit me, why not get the Linux version? So I did, and I was pleasantly suprised! Work Units ran faster and everything! Now I'm under WinXP and back on the Win32 application. Great stuff, people always ask "What's that!" and I must have got at least 10 people signed up since 1999!
I help run a Computer Club in Sherwood, Nottingham, and love participating, playing the odd game, and generally doing computer related social events. All that wish to may join every monday night, 7:00-9:30 Sherwood Community Center, Arnold.
Long Live Seti@home (well, until we find what we're all looking for!) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
We will find extraterrestrial life, definately, but will it be intelligent? I don't know. I think most if not all of ET life will be mammalian etc, but not developed to our point (not that we are either developed or civilised to a good enough point). It would HAVE to be a worldwide effort, because the Americans, the Europeans and the Russians all have histories that mean that whatever happens, they try and conceal it or use it for personal gain. Not very good...
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
Yes. We should. But Surely only our unicode alphabet, decimal numerical system, and location relative to major constellations etc. The Unicode English alphabet should be sent because it is the universal language (come on, it is!) and decimal, becuase it says a lot about us and our standardisations. Other things have to be brief, basic and easy to understand.
Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
Seti@home allows me to have a screensaver etc that makes people look and say 'Wow!'. The project is bound to expanded and expanded, and since it uses idle cycles, everyone should run it (unless they wish to participate in Antrax research and other 'short term' projects). Signals should not just be downloaded, but other astronomical observations decalculated. It's good stuff, all of it, but Seti@home should work on more than just looking for a signal, that is within some parameters... |
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