Profile: jbowman90

Personal background
I'm supposed to speak about myself here. Sounds like an online personal ad to me. But here goes ... I'm an aeronautical engineer (a.k.a. rocket scientist but I work with aircraft) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, the birth place of aviation (get over it North Carolina. The only reason the Wright Brothers
came there to fly, and that's all they did there, was because you had lots
of wind). I'm 31, a private pilot working on an instrument rating, and computers are one hobby. I do have a home page (http://jbowman90.dyndns.org/) if you want to know more.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I have mixed feelings about Seti projects. I'm more of an engineer than a scientist. Science from the original greek means "to know". My requirements are higher. To know is not enough. There has to be a benefit to society. If we discover a signal we've only satisfied our own curiosity and nothing more. What if all of Seti@Home's computing power could be brought to bear on more immediate problems like cancer research (I have participated in this) or finding a bigger Goulomb's ruler? I'm not saying we shouldn't look for E.T., just that as a society we have decide how to direct limited resources. I guess one can make an argument that finding E.T. would change our whole way of thinking, and that the benefits, tangible or intangible, of that happening are beneficial to society.
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