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| Personal background |
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Hello, I am a postdoc at UC Berkeley, studying electrical engineering and modeling. I finished my PhD at Vanderbilt University, where i first started running seti@home about 4 years ago.
I was born in Virginia, and grew up in Glade Spring, before moving to Piney Flats, TN where I graduated from Sullivan East High School in 1994. I then attended Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN, where I graduated "in cursu honorom" with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.
My current hobbies are playing tennis, black and white/slide photography and development, and trying to figure out why people like the California cuisine so much.
Thanks for reading,
Jon |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I am uncertain whether or not extraterrestrial life exists. There are only benefits in such a discovery. We will forget our own small differences, when we learn of beings so different from us that it makes black and white skin look pale gray in comparison.
2. If we transmit a beacon it should be our everyday life. We cannot encode "just" the things we want other life forms to see; rather, we should throw our TV transmissions out into the air, and they can deduce whether or not they want to be associated with us. :)
3. I run @home because I think it is a worthwhile search. |
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