| Personal background |
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| I am proud to be an eclectic person, who at age 48 still doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up! Check back in 20 or 30 years - maybe then I'll have a better idea... I have been a theatre actress and director; run a day care center/preschool; managed a governmental database of domestic violence and youth sexual assault statistics; and spent 8 years doing social work in the HIV/AIDS community - along with other various and sundry odd jobs. Spent 3 years with my own business, as a consultant for non-profit organizations. One of my clents hired me as a fulltime Executive Director, which I did for about 20 months. Then I got the chance to develop and run a new program providing resources to disabled adults who want to participate in the arts - that's what I'm doing right now. I believe passionately in IDIC. I live in Seattle, WA with my three cats and collection of Star Trek books and tapes of all the episodes of all the series. Each computer I acquire runs Seti as its screen-saver. My friends always ask (upon entering my office),"So, have you found ET yet?" No, but I keep hoping... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Having run SETI@home for many years now, it is a familiar presence. I do think there is other (probably even more)intelligent life out there and it is just a matter of time before we find it - or it finds us. Perhaps until we have a better grip on sanity in this world, we should stick to passively looking, however. I run SETI@home to help in the search, to contribute to our knowledge, and to feel a part of a larger scientific community. When we do finally discover that we are not alone in the universe, it will bring about a major paradigm shift - if it hasn't happened before that. A part of me thinks that shift won't happen UNTIL we make that discovery. If other life finds us first, I worry about our reaction; we tend to (as a race) react with fear first and sanity long after. Fear will be our biggest enemy - as it already is in our current world insanity. We seem especially afraid of those more intelligent than we - as any life with the knowledge to find us would surely be. Let us hope they are benevolent - and extremely tolerant and patient with us humans. |
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