| Personal background |
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| I'm a software programmer for a small company. i'm leaving my twenties soon. I run, cycle, fence, play ultimate frisbee. I studied philosophy in school and think of technolgy as servile at best. our bodies, computers, fork trucks and hammers all are machines for us to get the most out of while we are here for no other reason then that they are here as containers for our existance. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think ET life is irrelavent currently. We shouldn't change a single thing we do based on whether life is or is not out there. We should reach to the stars for issues like 1)new markets 2) distributing our genes and 3) technology (that we'd come up with naturally getting out there). Listening to space for patterns is good for just pure science. Listening to space is something computers are good at that allow us to do what we do best--make better computers. If all this listening and analysis figures something out, fine; but I don't think ETs should impact us. I wouldn't want resources drawn away from our highways and AIDS research just because 40T miles away there is something with a HAM radio.
I run SEtI@Home because machines should be made to work, constantly. That's what they are, that's their purpose, and they aren't working if they aren't always working. seti@home was the first distributed program screen saver i heard about worth anything, so that's why I use it.
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