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My name is David and I'm a 1st year student of Information Technology. Even at this level I live and breath maths and psuedo-code.
I'm 36 years old and worked as a tally butcher for many of those years before deciding to expand my horizons. I know what hard work is, both physically and mentally and this has achieved an important balance in this stage of my life.
I've had a fascination with SETI ever since I saw the movie 'Contact' with Jodie Foster. Also, the very 'given' fact that there is life out there is something I find exciting - and be it in my lifetime, if contact is made.
David
Southern Institute of Technology
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I run SETI@home because I don't see why a computer should sit and do nothing when we've walked away from it. Imagine the things an idle computer could do that might someday benefit humanity - all while we eat or sleep. If only more people could devote their 'idle-time' resources to such noble things, imagine the sheer processing power of all the computers of the world put together.
My views about the project are pragmatic. I also use my idle resources for aids and climate research. I manage 3 computers - an old bomb which sat in a cupboard and was doing nothing anyway, my current one and my computer at the College. I plan to use those as well, eventually.
My only suggestion is how about some sound? I know it'd would only be the pops, whistles and white noise of deep space, but it would add to the experience....
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