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...in a breath: walts - New Yorker, since Apr '47 - The Tao, since Oct '63 - Hicksville NY HS Jun '65 - Computers, since Aug '65 - Navy RM2, Oct '66 to Nov '70 - Viet Nam IV Corps, Three Tours, Oct '67 to Dec '69 - Accountancy, since Jan '73 - Online, since Oct '78 - Spreadsheets, since Aug '81, Luggable PCs, since Oct '85, Laptop PCs, since Jun '88 - Dorsai, since Aug '93 - Microsoft ClubWin, since Jan '96 - Speaker Comdex, Apr and Nov '96 - NewHoo/ODP, since Aug '98 - SETI@Home, since Aug '99 - IDEA since Feb '01, Google Answers, since Jun '02
...on a page: http://www.dorsai.org/~walts/
...in a thought: A tree that can fill the span of a man’s arms Grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high Rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles Starts from beneath one’s feet. - Lao-Tzu
...From a quote: "Go ahead and do it. It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The anomaly showed up most starkly in Base 2 arithmetic, where it could be written out entirely as zeros and ones. Her program reassembled the digits into a square raster, an equal number across and down. Hiding in the alternating patterns of digits, deep inside the transcendental number, was a perfect circle, its form traced out by unities in a field of noughts....
The universe was made on purpose, the circle said. You take the circumference of a circle, divide it by its diameter, measure closely enough, and uncover a miracle - another circle, drawn kilometers downstream of the decimal point. There would be richer messages further in. As long as you live in this universe, and have a modest talent for mathematics, sooner or later you'll find it. It's already here. It's inside everything....
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Standing over humans, gods, and demons, subsuming Caretakers and Tunnel builders, there is an intelligence that antedates the universe....
The circle had close...she found what she had been looking for...
- Carl Sagan's "Contact"
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