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I'm 48. I live in Denver, Colorado, and I am disabled. I volunteer with a non-profit legal advocacy organization. I'm a fan of "Star Trek", enjoy reading and taking walks. I am facinated by, and read about, science, history, and the law.
The first 430 SETI work units I ran on a computer with a Pentium-MMX 166 MHz processor and 64 MB of RAM. So, speed isn't of importance, persistence is. I try to think of that as my personal rule. All units after that, I'm running on a 900 MHz Athlon processor and 256 MB RAM. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do believe that there are other intelligent species out there. If life came into existence through ordinary physical and chemical reactions, and the evolution of time, those same processes could occur elsewhere on other planets. If we were created through the supernatural act of a divine being, why would that devine being only create us? Our own medium-sized galaxy is enormous. The Universe is vast betond comprehension. To me, thinking that we are alone in the Universe, or even our Galaxy is arrogant and preposterous: Why should our ordinary planet around our ordinary star be the sole abode of intelligent life? Or, to paraphrase a character in Carl Sagan's novel "Contact", if we are alone, it sure is a lot of wasted space!
I run SETI@home because I think it is one of the few feasible projects for finding extra-terrestrial intelligent life. I don't believe faster-than-light-speed space travel is possible, so we can't go exploring in a Federation starship or the "Millennium Falcon", we have to hope that by sifting through terabytes of data we might find one day the equivalent of an alien radar beacon or talk show or other radio signal. Also, it beats letting my computer sit idle. |
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