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| Personal background |
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| I retired to Arizona in 1994 after 27 years in CIA Covert Operations. Always a science fiction fan, joining SETI@home as soon as I found out about it was a given. Oddly enough, my hobby is Cowboy Action Shooting. I leave my computer, revert to my 1880s persona, and lose myself in times long since past.The juxtaposition of SETI@home and 1880s America isn't so odd. After all, when SETI finds anything, won't it be from the past? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| When I read about SETI@home in a magazine article, I knew I had to be a part of it. After growing up on Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, et al., participating in SETI@home was a given.aaAs with any scientific endeavor, failure to produce the hoped-for result is not failure of the project. if nothing else, SETI@home has proven the feasibility and value of using massive numbers of individual computers to assist in solving a problem that would take a Cray XP2 or similar computer hundred of years to do.aaI have no doubt at all that extraterrestrial intelligence exists. I would be arrogant of us to believe we are unique in the universe. When we discover evidence of them, we have to remember that what we discover happened a long time in the past. Any benefits could only come from deciphering what we pick up. Of course, it probably will be ET's equivalent of Three's Company. |
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