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| Personal background |
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| I curently live in Henderson, Nevada. I came to the valley from Cheyenne, Wyoming where I worked as a cop. When I moved here I also changed professions and started to work full time for the City as a Computer Programmer. I tinker with a lot of things, but the main things that have stayed with me for a while are computers, guns and go karts. I love to take my two small (not so small 7 and 9) children to the dry lake and ride go karts with them. I also go target shoot whenever I get a chance. I shoot about a thousand rounds of ammo a month out of my 9mm and about a thousand out of my .22. As for computers I have five at home...three windows 2000 machines, one Linux Red Hat 7.3 machine (just trying to learn a little about that one) and one Solaris 8 machine. Oh, I also try to stay in shape because I'm 49 this year (2002) and I have two small kids so I run every other day. They like to fish so I try and take them to grandma and grampa's house every spring to fish, they do like catching those fish. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think extraterrestial life exists? Well I can't imagine it not existing, there are way too many stars and planets in the Universe for there not to be life somewhere else. Now for intelligent life on other planets, there has to be more than one planet in the universe (Depending, I assume, that you consider life on Earth intelligent).
Should humans transmit a beacon? I can't imagine a beacon being any more helpful than the millions of radio and tv transmissions going out all the time, though it might help if we were to try and let them know that the tv signals they are getting isn't real life here on this planet (is it?).
I run Seti at home because we need the computing power to analize all the data that is collected. I sure would like it if the question were answered before I hit my 50th birthday...hell maybe it could happen on my 50th...what a birthday gift! I also think that we would have a lot better chance of finding life if we could use a dish that would move so we could search different areas of the sky. |
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