| Personal background |
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I'm a 3rd year Physics/Astrophysics student at UTSA,
but I'm also (or have been) a ...
... Painter ...
... Webmaster ...
... Sculptor ...
... Programmer ...
... Vegetarian ...
... Pilot ...
... Athiest ...
... Traveller ...
... RPG Gamer ...
... Teacher ...
... Photographer ...
... Collaborator ...
... Intellectual ...
... Individual.
I am definitely *NOT*: Conventional, Colorful, Confined, Indecisive, Unresourceful, Disorganized, Athletic, Stereotypical, Emotional, Dirty, Carnivorous, Intrusive, Obstructive, Restrictive, Indirect, Illogical, Religious, Frivolous, Spontaneous, or Excessive.
Things about me that really don't matter at all:
21 Years Old
Female
I own 3 parakeets and 4 computers
I have 1 little brother and 1 father, but no mother
My favorite food is garlic.
That's all I know about myself. If I learn more, I'll update this :)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I won't attempt to have an opinion on whether or not extraterrestrial life exists, because I don't think I'm qualified to have a justifiable one. Here's my stance on the issue:
It would seem like such a waste of a perfectly good universe if there was no place harboring intelligence other than a few locations on Earth. Therefore, we should look and hope to find something so we know that the universe isn't being wasted.
Then again, when compared to the WHOLE UNIVERSE, my opinion on the efficiency of it all doesn't particularly matter. Nor does the collective opinion of all the life forms on Earth.
Certainly I'm not the only one who's come to this conclusion, so why are we even looking? Just to prove that the universe isn't being wasted? Since our human opinion doesn't matter on the scale of the whole universe, it won't matter what we prove as far as universal wastefulness goes, and this whole search would be a little time-consuming for answers to such meaningless questions as "What's the purpose of the Universe?". So maybe ...
It would seem like a such a waste of *intelligence* if we're the only ones who have it. Therefore, we should look and hope to find something, so we know that our intelligence isn't being wasted.
Now we're getting somewhere. What good can our minds do if we're the only ones out there? We're smart enough to know that our species won't last forever, nor our Earth, our Sun, or anything else ...
Maybe we're looking for someone to pass on the collective history of human intelligence to, or to absorb information and culture from (and then get the hell out of here before we're extinct). I think the ultimate purpose of this whole search might have something to do with the subconscious persistance of the human spirit and craving for knowledge rather than something as trivial as the answer to the ultimate question of the universe. Besides, we already know that's 42.
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