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Hey all, I'm a 32 year old geek in Vancouver, BC, Canada (the wet coast). I've been working in software QA since 1998 and love being exposed to new technologies and new uses for old technologies constantly.
I spent my time in university (UBC) doing a double major in International Relations and History, and have also done computer programming (only windows software though) at a smaller college (CDI).
I have a large family with lots of kids that both keep me young at heart but are starting to age me (I keep looking for the first grey hair so I can blame it on a teenager ;) ). On my offtime I play rugby, try and stay in shape and play with linux server setups.
I can generally be found walking around reading. Lately it's all about quantum physics, particularily the parallel worlds interpretation. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Is there extraterrestrial life, I believe so. I couldn't say what stage of it's evolution it's at, but I'm sure that it exists in some form. Looking up at the night sky it deems mathematically improbable that life has not been formed somewhere out there.
I'm not expecting a visit from any green monsters with blaster guns anytime soon though.
Should we be transmitting a beacon for other people to find... no. Really, that just seems irresponsible. When we have the technology to travel to a beacon that we might find, _then_ we might want to consider it. But advertising that we are such a low technology species is taking the cute and cuddly hope that aliens are Ewoks or some other benign being a little far.
Why do I run SETI@home, well, technologically it just amuses the heck out of me to be part of this type of distributed computing network. I routinely have a bunch of computers just laying about my house doing nothing so why not put them to a good use. I do believe that looking for extraterrestrial transmissions is a worthwhile use of my computer resources. Societies advance far more quickly when they can share/steal ideas (just look at Civilization heh). Getting free information from an alien society seems a good thing. |
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