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| Personal background |
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Just another Screaming Shaved Monkey.
Computer grunt(basically do it all, net/sys/DB admin/eng, programming, training, consulting). Most importantly a curious shaved monkey with an imagination beyond destroying the other shaved monkeys.
In cohorts with my brother burnin (http://www.aros.net/~burnin) for this seti number crunching venture.
We have 7 different OS' running Seti in their spare time on ~30 machines over 4 networks. More seem to come each week.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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A wasted cpu cycle is a bad thing. Search for knowledge is a good thing. Killing two birds with one stone is effecient. You get the idea.
Does "intelligent" life exist outside Earth's microcosm? That is certain. Logic dictates that simply because life on Earth exists it exists elsewhere as well when the numbers are taken into account.
Will we discover it? Proof of it via tools such as the Seti project, yes. Will we ever physically encounter them? Doubtful. I suspect the human race will have run its course long before we are capable of leaving our own solar system effectively and certainly before an alien species bothers to take serious note of us. Our greatest creations come from either attempting to decimate one another or to prevent ourselves from being decimated by others. It is rarely the desire simply for knowledge that drives us but a much more primitive and destructive nature. We are merely reptilian shaved monkeys with a dangerous ability to imagine and a good set of tools (our hands) to apply that imagination.
Beyond folding space or some undiscovered technology the only possible solution I can envision to extended space travel would be taking what makes us what we are (our minds) and being able to transmit that over some sort of "medium". Of course this also means you need a reciever on the other end. |
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