| Personal background |
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I'm originally from Wetumpka, AL, but have lived in Minneapolis, MN since about 1994. I'm an avid and improving chessplayer, and spend way too much time trying to decide whether I should focus on my game with classical time controls or keep enjoying life's simple pleasures (playing Blitz and Bughouse chess).
I pay the bills doing software design and coding, currently for a large Bank. I was a consultant for a long time, but then the dark times fell upon us and I've joined the cadre of traditional full-time employees. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think ETI exists?
I think it's improbable that we're the only intelligent life in the universe. It's also unfortunately improbable that we'll ever contact other intelligent life, owing to practical considerations and a probable wide gap in fundamental understanding of what it means to communicate. But I think we have to make the effort, because the implications of actually making contact would be staggering -- not on the practical level, where it's almost certain that nothing would change for the day to day life of us humans, but just seeing that beacon 'shining' in space saying "WE ARE HERE" [or at least, we were here long ago when we sent this] is a beautiful dream.
Should we transmit a beacon?
It only seems polite. ETI is probably as eager to find us as we are to find them. If we're listening, we should play nice and send as well.
Why do I run SETI@home?
I think it's cool. Granted, I don't have the resources to make an appreciable difference, but every spit in the ocean raises the tide...
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