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I've been exposed to advanced electronics since I was a young tyke, with dad in the Navy, I was permitted to visit the avionics shops at many locations and was thrilled with the exposure to cool stuff. In school, we toured a huge telescope observitory which I was permitted also to look through the eyepiece. It only took one look as a child, and I was hooked on amature astronomy forever.
It did'nt take me any time at all to make the connection between outerspace and electronics as the physical sciences are intertwined. Much of our technology advances today are as a result of space exploration.
Because of my interest in science and space, I always studied math, electronics, and astronomy with the energy of a young child with a new toy (I'm 40 now). Part of my current formal education is computer science, with an MSCE and working towards DBA $ Exchange administator, I've built plenty of computers for my school and home network. Some of the PCs I've built are not normal home PCs, but advanced buisness class servers that are not really used so much for buisness as school.
With such a deep interest in physical sciences, my job as a ET technical lead is really fun as I get to work with all genere of electronics at all frequencies in the spectrum. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life exist? The components do exist, such as amino acids are abundant enough everywhere to support the formation of life on our scale in other parts of the universe. It is conceivable that certain [physical] elements could be present in abundance at that remote location that, that race would have the technology available to transmit and travel distances we can only envision right now. The SETI at home project is obviously very well thought out, and given the attributes we now "know" about cosmic background radiation and those constants' contribution to this project, yes the odds are great, but if there's a signal out there passing our way, we'll find it.
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? This is a tough question. On one hand, the energy required, and the money to vest into a transmitter are prohibitive from what I know about technology available today. But in the other hand, the same transmitter could be used to communicate with our own explorers when we start traveling in deep space. If another society is contemplating the same delima we are about transmitting, the scale tipper would be, I would want them to transmit the signal so I could find it!
I run SETI at home because I like the thought of maybe being part of a discovery, not just alien life so much as all the other less touted benifits such as discovery of evidence other planets. I could happen! I also like it that my fast computers have a purpose other than just school. GO SCIENCE! |
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