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| Personal background |
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| My name is Adam Grounds. I'm the network administrator for a NASA contractor. In fact, my entire family works directly or indirectly for the Johnson Space Center here in Houston. One could say that this background has always lent itself toward my almost unnatural infatuation with all things space. When other kids were playing board games and hide-and-seek, I was reading Cosmos. I received my first telescope at the age of 10. It was a middle-of-the-road catadioptric refractor. I was up that night until just past 4AM staring at the heavens. That began my voracious appetite for anything Astrophysics/Astronomy. I've been hooked ever since. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I tentatively ran SETI@home on my personal machine off and on for awhile during the last year or so. Then one day I was cruising through my archived documents CD's and ran across my old SET@home information. The proverbial lightbulb went on, and I realized that I have multiple servers at my work with 2-4 processors each that could crunch some serious data during the idle process. So, I downloaded the latest client, and started installing. I now how 7 large servers crunching data for SETI@home, with plans to expand into some of the smaller single-processor stations.
It would difficult in the least to believe that we, as a planet, are alone in the universe. Life does not have to conform to the traditional boundaries of carbon-based single or multi-cellular organisms. With as many Class-M planets as exist in our galaxy alone, the odds are 'astronomical' that somewhere up there, something exists.
With our current technology and abilities, we are still listening for transmissions that would have had to occured thousands to upwards of millions of years ago. One can only hope that at various stages of the universes' existence, life propogated, communicated, and extended beyond the fragile systems we call home, and still exist. The finding of another source of life in the universe, while throwing many faiths into disarray, would indeed be the greatest milestone in the evolution of humanity as we prepare for our future of voyages into the heavens. |
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