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| Personal background |
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| Hi. I live in Colorado, and I am currently persuing undrgrad pre - law requirements for a BA. I intend to practice civil liberties law when I graduate. I am 23. My interests include music, and computer gaming. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extra - terrestrial life does exist. WHERE and HOW, are matters of conjecture and hypothesis. I feel that perhaps our definition of sentient life is a bit egocentric. It is quite possible that any species evolved enough to communicate with us from afar would be using some other method than audio / radio communication that we are simply unaware of. These 'beings' could exist on some plane beyond our material, 3D plane. Looking OUT might not be as effective as looking THROUGH or AROUND. However, one possibility with the SETI project is that there may have been a race of creatures like us 30 million years ago, and at some point we will hear the echoes of their history. Perhaps they were annihilated by their own devices or some sort of galactic disaster, but we would hear their echoes, even though they no longer exist.
Regardless of the potential success of this project, its structure is a project in itself. SETI@home is like a massive lightning rod of CPU cycles. Rarely (never?) before have humans been able to collectively donate processor power to solve one MASSIVE equation. This kind of architecture could be used for countless other problems, such as combing through DNA code, testing mathematical theories, compiling packets of source code, etc. etc.
Aliens or no aliens, the process is an important step forward in using computers and the internet to solve complex problems. To me, that is the noteworthy progress that the project has made thus far.
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