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| Personal background |
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My name is Rick Wrigley. I'm 54 years old, and I've been running SETI@home since May 1999, changing from the screensaver version to the command line version in 2000, since it's a lot faster. I'm currently gunning for my 2500th work unit. When I upgrade my 3-year old motherboard, my result interval will be somewhat shorter!
I answer telephones for a large hotel for a living, and my hobbies include gardening, PC gaming, and mostly, music. I have been active in college radio for 25 years, doing an "alternative oldies" show, "The Old Wave Show," heard weekly at wcniradio.org Tuesdays 0600-0900 US EST/EDT.
I have been married 31 years to a wonderful woman, and we have two grown sons, the elder of whom can be heard in MP3 form at mp3.com/oldscratch. Check it out! Both are in college.
I live in southeastern Connecticut, where we have four distinct seasons and the ocean is nearby.
I feel great about my 2250 work units and have encouraged others to participate in this great search! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I really do not know. Nature does abhor a vacuum. Sentience may take many forms, some not recognizable by our senses. Humanoids on other planets? Possible but unlikely. Planets with lots of water in liquid state may be rare. If there is, it is likely to be found by monitoring signals in the frequency of hydrogen, as SETI does. Interplanetary distances, let alone interstellar distances, are so enormous as to make discovery of, or by, an alien civilization a minimal threat.
2. We've been broadcasting RF energy into space since the 1920s. A more composed signal containing basic human knowledge (the periodic table, pi, DNA etc.) and what we look like (and more) would be a way to say "Here we are!" This would be a good idea, if it could be accomplished.
3. I run SETI@home because I beleieve in distributed computing (after 2500 units, I'm going to join a protein-folding project), and because SETI@home is perfoming important scientific research. |
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