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| Personal background |
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I am the Lead Web Developer at Nucleus Information Service Inc. an ISP in the Calgary area. I am a native of Ottawa, Ontario and have been in Calgary over seven years now. I am an avid reader of all sorts of fiction. Some of my favourite authors are: Philip Jos�Farmer, Anne Rice and Clive Barker to name a select few.
I collect comic books and I watch a lot of movies. My favourite movies of all time are The Star Wars series, The Indiana Jones series, Highlander, Bladerunner, Escape from New York, Toy Story, Casablanca and any classic horror movies with Boris Karloff.
I am a computer geek with experience building systems and using as much software as I can get my hands on. For work I code in PHP and HTML, I use Styles and Style Sheets. I am a graphic artist and am quite comfortable in PhotoShop and Illustrator. I am proficient at web optimization and animation. I have experience in video editing using Premiere and 3D using TrueSpace. I use Flash and Director.
On top of all that I wrestle penguins. I am quite comfortable in the Linux environment and can deal effectively with Apache and MySQL. I am interested in broadening my programming skills and plan on learning C and or C as well as PERL. I could get into programming with QT depending on how much I want to mess with my environment.
I got into SETI@home through work. It seemed like fun and uses my computer when I am not around. I figure if my computer is on and I'm not using it why not have it do something worthwhile. I believe that there are other civilizations in space on other planets. I cannot believe that Earth is the only planet in the entire cosmos that supports intelligent life. We'll see I guess, hopefully in my lifetime... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1a) I do believe that extraterrestrial life exists.
1b) At present I believe that it will be the extraterrestrials that will discover us as our technology is still not at a level where we can detect this life at the distances that it most likely exists.
1c) The possible benefits of discovering extraterrestrian life are: a unifying force for our world, this discovery is likely to bring together the people of Earth and hopefully end all war on our planet, the ET's could share their technology allowing us to explore the rest of the galaxies, they could have some insight into our diseases and ailments and help us rid our planet of all things that ail us.
1d) The possible dangers of such a discovery are: they could be hostile, they could enslave us or destroy us. They could unleash a plague that would eradicate all humans and leave our planet for them to exploit or colonize as they see fit, we could war on them as we have warred on each other for no better reason than they are different, we could kill them as we have killed each other because they believe different things than we do, we could make them sick with our germs and diseases or our drugs.
2a) I think humans should transmit a beacon for others to find, it's a moot point as Voyager's mission is to do so on long range. I believe that our radio signals are a beacon in and of themselves. However, a message directed to any Extraterrestrials would be a good idea.
2b) I think we should send a message of peace, extend a hand in order that it may be shaken. Beyond that nothing strategic.
3a) I believe that our vast majority of computers are sitting idle too long, so their idle time should be put to use for large endeavors of this nature. I am interested in finding a cure for cancer and I believe that distributed computing may be the answer to that as well. I think SETI@home is a useful venture, I question the effectiveness of our measuring devices however.
3b) T believe that the project is a valuable one and I hope it continues for a very long time, at lea |
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