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| Personal background |
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| I currently live in Summerville, SC (right outside of Charleston), and have lived here for the better part of my 30 years (except for the 9-1/2 years in the US Air Force). Currently I work for a government contractor doing satellite communications. Very interesting work. I guess you can say that I have a lot of interests, but my first love is music. Listening to it, playing it, even writing it a little. But the great part about music is that you can listen to it while doing other things. That's what I do while I'm messing around with my computer, my R/C car, my Ford Ranger, or helping my friend David (Seti@home user name Drswampy) work on his Harley or classic Mustang. In addition, I also enjoy roller hockey and golf. And watching any sports but baseball or basketball. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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In order:
1. Yes. I think that if humans find E.T., it will be completely by chance, or through some such program such as this one, and the jury is still out on what will happen. I only hope that it won't be something like what happened in Robotech.
2. I don't see anything wrong with sending a signal, but I'm not really sure what we'd send, or if we'd ever get a response. I mean, look at what we're doing here.
3. Well, I was introduced to SETI@home a few years ago by the aforemetioned friend, David, but wasn't really in a position to run it. I think we both kind of forgot about it for a while, but we both upgraded our computers a couple of years ago, and decided that the extra processor power should be put to good use. I'm running a P4 1.8 GHz on a Soyo main board with 256 Meg of Corsair memory, and I'm very pleased that I can get my work units done in around 5 hours now, after tweaking a bit. I also run a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop at 2.8GHz and 384Mb RAM, which actually was completing Seti@home classic wu's a lot faster than my desktop. I'm glad to see that Seti@home has finally gotten the Boinc project up and running, and I'm looking forward to see what kind of results we'll get. |
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