The SETI program is a screen saver that scans through data from space while your computer isn't doing anything. Or while, more exactly, it's sitting there thinking "I have 300 megahertz and my owner is a deeno-idiot." "Guy's a typist."
A MILLION personull computers around the world are crunching data, in real time, that is assigned by headquarters; and you get a cool blue and red graphic of the data spikes.
It makes techno geeks very happy and proud, scouring the near universe for techno geeks in space, the mirror, and I suspect also gives them a moment, or two, when they imagine their computer discovering the Mooo, or the CeeDubeons.
Singular, this moment would be. Way, way, way way way past orgasmic.
You know? Imagine the effect. These people are, ultimately, gigantasauric perverts. It tickles; and I think it's secretly why this program is such a huge success.
"What if my computer discovers 'em? Man-o man-o! Wooo!"
Talk about a spike.
It could ahppen.
Whamm-O.
Virtual divination.
A hummingbird's beak in lysergic acid.
It's fun to watch, the little program; like the universe searching for itself; trying to discover its identity, the prime prime Descartes. New generation machines, mechanical quasi-human minds, searching for each other. Feeling around in the dark.
Voyeurs with human voyeurs. "I like to watch."
"Well thank goodness for that."
Of course, I still have Kathy Ireland as my screen saver. I'm into science, sure; but girls are more immediate.
I can't remember for sure, but I think my Techie said the blue and purple screen graphic you see, which is cool, is unrelated to the actual data being processed ~ essentially a mirage. Pretty smart, I think. I mean, except for that it represents a model of typical data, you might as well be watching birds hatch.
Which sounds fun. |
