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| Personal background |
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| I'm a 48 year old guy born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. You got a problem with that? Just kidding. I've worked in the computer biz since the days of Hollerith cards and vacuum tubes. I build 'em, install 'em, fix 'em, etc. Been married for just about thirty years. Maureen, my wife, and I have never had, nor wanted kids. Lots of cats, snakes, spiders, and the occasional dog. We're both avid readers, we love old movies and our Park Slope home in (where else?) Brooklyn. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Statistically speaking, life must exist in some form somewhere else. "Otherwise, it'd be a terrible waste of space." No, I don't think we've ever been visited. Ever. It just doesn't make any sense. We're not that attractive. I think the current SETI program is but one method of looking about. We'll think up more as our technology evolves. Benefits of discovery are boundless, but fraught with peril. How many people will just freak when we actually receive a signal. We'll be lucky though, to be able to decode such a message. Our language is based in no small part on our biology and history. Beings who share neither of these will not communicate as we do. But just to KNOW! Simply knowing opens so many doors: new mathematics fields, xenobiology, xenosociology, physics,....the list is endless.
Dangers? I don't think so. It wouldn't be worth the effort for anyone to attack us. Even if it were possible. I don't know if it would be possible. I run SETI@Home just to put my CPU where my mouth is. Sure, some people snigger now, but history will guffaw at our pedestrian and cloistered view of ourselves as the pinnacle and sole inhabitants of the entire universe (which, by the way, is really, really BIG!). |
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