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| Personal background |
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| I'm a perpetual student trying to get into Grad school at the moment, in Neuroscience. I love computers and can do most anything with them (though I despise actually doing programming). My hobbies include anything that can keep my attention for more than a few hours. The larger ones so far are scuba diving, fencing, racquetball, gardening/landscaping, martial arts, computers, and all sorts of broken electronics and shiny objects. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm not feeling too creative right now... so
1. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
--Of course it does. The universe is just too damn big to only have one type of sentient life in it. It'd be real boring if we were the only ones. How will we discover it? Probably it will discover us sooner than us finding it, Earth shines brighter than the sun in the right spectrum from all of our fun radio waves. Dangers and benefits would be reaching space faster with outside help, negatives is that we better hope that whoever they are, they are nice, cause there is little chance of us fighting in space.
2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
--Uhm.. no. Same reason as stated above. I think that there is life elsewhere, and most likely some of it much more advanced than us. I would rather not gamble the species on the hopes that they are kind hearted. The positives on the other hand are that our planet resides on the ass-end of nowhere in the galactic spiral arm. So even if we did transmit messages, by our current technology they won't end up anywhere interesting for a few hundred years.
3. Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
--Why do I run it... probably because I never got over my childhood dream of being an astronaut. And NASA (and obviously SETI) are so horribly underfunded considering that space exploration holds some answers to problems here on Earth. And it is the next obvious step for the human race, true ingenuity and genius seem to have been forged throughout history during the movement into the unknown. These days governments squander resources on unnecessary military posturing and strange economic 'plans'. We should be in space. That is why I do this I guess. |
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