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| Personal background |
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| I am a recent Information Technology graduate of RIT who first started in the Imaging Science program for a little over a year. I'm fascinated by space, physics, science, optics, etc, but the science and math involved in seeking a profession in any of these areas was just too much for me. :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Sure, extraterrestrial life exists. But how can you ask "when will humans discover it?" Don't you know time is relative? ;) Actually I think that it's physically impossible for us to connect with extraterrestrial life. Maybe in some other section of the galaxy the stars are closer together and there's a party going on over there, but here where we are, it's hard for us to make contact with or be contacted by anyone. Benefits if it ever did happen? We won't feel so alone. But it won't be all that great either - I mean, it would take so long to send messages at the speed of light. Dangers... Hmm, they might not share our morals. lol
We could transmit a beacon... focused on all of the closest stars (to the position where we'd expect them to be by the time light reaches them, that is) and we should simply send intense pulses of prime numbers between 1 and 101 in EM radiation at wavelengths that will stand out from the Sun. (Yeah, I got that from Contact, but to heck with encoding a message - we have nothing to say except that we're here.)
I run SETI@home mainly because it's a cool concept. It's a more interesting screensaver than anything else I've seen. :)
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