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Hello there, I was once among the mass of faceless SETI users until finally I decided to fill out one of these silly profiles.
I am currently a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. I am 20 years old and closing in on my Bachelor's Degree for Computer Engineering.
I spend most of my time reading ArsTechnica, Slashdot, HardOCP, or Shugashack. When I'm not goofing off, I actually try to take my classes seriously. All other free time and money goes to my girlfriend who has shown to be sucking my soul away slower than all other girls (in other words, we are a happy couple).
I am somewhat proficient in several popular computer languages (i.e. java, html, c , vhdl, verilog, assembly). I am also pretty damn good with digital circuits and working with combinational logic circuits. If your company is hiring, feel free to email me. :-) (hey, there's nothing wrong with shameless self-promotion) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am sure that like so many people, the movie Contact sparked a unique interest for the cosmos in me. Drake's equation is a seemingly unavoidable statistical consequence of our inconceivably vast universe. Being scientifically minded, I will never stop asking the difficult questions and wondering about the bigger picture.
I hope that life exists somewhere else so as to help people better understand where we came from. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to prove religion wrong or right. In fact, it would be interesting to find aliens who were carrying around their own Bible. I would laugh.
I think that one of the big keys to discovery is to be more active. Currently we have such a passive system of detection that covers such a small spectrum of space that chances of discovering anything of worth are dim. I think that our civilization would have to move into at least a Type II civilization before we could ever hope to discover any other life.
A useful analogy I just thought of to describe our efforts would be like an ant trying to fly to the moon and back. I am not implying that all of this is for naught, it just must be understand that Drake's equation is a double-sided sword. For the universe is immense, and it does present the possibility of life; but in its immensity, it has rendered itself inaccessible by our current technology.
So, whereas I believe that this project itself may not discover anything; there is a possibility that it could get the wheels turning in enough people's heads to create a societal paradigm shift --a worldwide epiphany, if you will-- that would advance our tech in some way.
One step that will go a long way to advancing our capabilities will be quantum computers. Just imagine a distributed computing network of quantum computers... I have faith in the new fresh minds of our generation The mindset is in place, but when will there be a chain reaction to set it all off? Who knows... |
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