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I am a computer engineer by training, but do a managing job now. I was born in Berlin/Germany but live in Manila for 6 years now. I am married with 2 children.
I came to the seti project by pure accident. I surfed around the net and stumbled over a link to the seti@home site. Downloaded the client and run it since then. In the beginning more as a benchmark tool to see how my computer is doing compared against the statistic on this site. After a time of tweaking the settings and improving the systems speed i think i am at the limits of this system by now.
It runs on a 600 Mhz Athlon with 256 Meg of Ram. Operating system is Windows 98 SE. Commandline client in a ramdrive. I am at 8.5 hours per dataset now and guess thats it for this system.
Maybe i`ll get a new one soon, but kind of undecided whether to wait for the next generation of cpu`s (hammer or itanium)or not.
Any insights, just e-mail me. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well the odds are that there is other live out there. The universe is just a too large place for one race.
Not sure whether we find them or they will find us first. They might found us already.
How will the first encounter be???
Looking into the history of our civilisation makes me wonder a lot. Everytime we met a less developed culture it was either destroyed or transformed into what was seen fit at that time. This time we might meet a much far developed culture, so lets hope they just share some knowledge with us and let us go on.
If we meet a less developed culture (i don`t think so since they would not yet send any signals), let`s hope we learned the lessons of our past. However they would be rather far away from here, and we still leck the technology to get close enough to do any harm. As time goes by we will aquire the maturity level to handle such situation. |
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