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| Personal background |
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Since I'm lacking in stuff to do at the moment, I might as well go off into ramblings about myself that absolutely no one will probably ever read. Ah, well. Gives me something to do whilst half-asleep and bored...
A college student by profession (at least for the next three years, plus grad school), I'm a nineteen-year-old American woman. (Hmmm...that sounds like a dating ad.) My random collection of hobbies includes: reading, embroidery, sporadic poetry writing, photography, watching movies, automatically wording things as complexly as possible, playing video games (mostly Star Wars ones, so far), computer programming (although that seems to be developing from a hobby into a career idea), and learning Japanese. I also love traveling, and go anywhere that I can manage (so far including Italy, Switzerland, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and about half of the states in the US).
A relatively recent rabid Star Wars fan (my fandom began about Christmas of 2000), I have managed to absorb quite a lot about the galaxy far, far away in such a short period of time. This was mainly managed by A. Watching the movies until my eyeballs fell out and B. Reading every SW book, short story, comic, etc. that wandered close enough for me to capture. I have the distinct feeling (and it's not a bad one) that my enthusiasm for Star Wars and SETI stem from the same twisted bit of me: my love of astronomy. A galaxy where interstellar travel is about as rare as us making a phone call is my own particular heaven, and if that heaven is occupied by lightsaber-swinging philosophers (sounds pretty scary when one puts it that way, doesn't it?) backed by the Force, so much the better!
To inject a smidgen of cynicism into this random mish-mash, WHY are we so convinced that the universe revolves around us? We're worrying that we're missing E.T.'s attempts to call us up and have an interstellar chat, when in reality the other life floating around out there (oh, there's definitely some somewhere) probably doesn't know we exist, or doesn't care. Provided that we could recognize it as life at all. We underestimate the creativity of Nature; just because we're carbon-based, 60% water, and oxygen-breathing, everything else just absolutely has to be as well. Sigh. Anyway, I'm going to stop writing before I work myself into genuine rant mode.
(If you've actually read all this, I have something to ask: How bored are you? Geez. Go develop some hobbies. Heck, steal some of mine, if you're that desperate.) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I ran across the SETI@home project for the first time in an article in "PC Magazine" (a top-notch publication, by the way) that listed top readers'-choice free-download software. SETI@home easily caught my attention, and subsequently my Internet bandwidth and processor time. The prospect of possibly helping science out in discovering E.T.'s assumed frantic attempts to contact insignificant us caught me immediately. Since SETI@home plugs the main shortcoming of other screensavers (doing nothing but wasting processor cycles), I now feel less guilty about wasting the electricity it takes to leave my laptop on all day. Hmmm. Screw up our planet to find another's civilization. Ironic, ironic. (Please excuse the cynicism. It's all but reflexive by now...) |
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