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| Personal background |
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I am a normal Joe, if you consider the normal Joe to be addicted to adrenaline. I used to race cars and motorcycles, but now I just watch the races, though I am still an avid motorcycle rider. Every once in awhile, you might catch me on a lake playing in a jet boat.
I have been "into" computers since I was 6, and have been using Linux since 1991. I think that I grew up in the best times for a computer junky (born in 1972) because I have witnessed the complete evolution of PCs from the kits with lights that blinked to the current day PC/Mac. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Should you be surprised that I am also into Seti and think along the same lines?
I joined the Seti@Home project shortly after hearing about it. I stopped for about 1 year due to various reasons, but in Spring 2001 I got back into the effort.
Is there life in the universe that did not originate from Earth? I have to believe that there is. Even if there is a 1 in 1 billion chance that a planet can have life on it, then that is still a rather large number of planets out there with living beings on them! It is ridicules to believe that Earth is the only place that has life on it in the infinitally vast universe. The life that is out there will most likely be completely foreign to us, and we might not even recognize it as such, but we should still try!
Now, Seti is based on finding life in a more advanced state. I mean, I haven't heard of any amoebas talking to each other via radio lately. But I would imagine that someone, somewhere out there, had a light bulb go on in their head one day and thought, "Now that would work to talk to our cousins 50 km away!"
There is always the possibility that some group of living beings is currently looking at this little planet right now. They might have seen a solar system glowing so brilliantly, and with such a wide range of frequencies, that they had to find out what was up. Of course, with our current knowledge, we know how far our signals have made it into the universe so far, and that only a few solar systems would be in range to see our glowing planet. |
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