Profile: kevincoleman

Personal background
I am a Canadian engineer interested in Mathematics and Philosophy. I have lived in Asia, Europe and North America, and have spent time in 44 different countries over the past 20 years. In one sense I am widely traveled, but I also have the feeling when I am flying at 35000 feet that perhaps I have never been more than 7 miles from home.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am convinced that life is a natural product of our universe, and must exist in some form in many places. I am also convinced that at some point we will leave this small corner of the universe and venture out to other stars, and that we are likely to find other life when we do. However, such life is almost certain to be either more primitive or substantially more advanced thanwe are. I don't believe we have much to fear in either case.

By the time we are ready to venture forward, we will not be using radio to communicate. It is much more likely that we will have found a way to use paired particles or something similar.

I believe SETI is working against incalculable odds - attempting to find another civilization at about the same level of communications as we are at when that level may only persist for a few hundred years in the course of evolution. At the same time, I believe we have to look energetically because success would be such an important piece of information to us.

The SETI@home project is a brilliant idea to carry out the massive data crunching required at minimal investment. It is responsible both from a public investment point of view and an encological point of view in taking advantage of underutilized resources.

Now my home computer speeds has so far exceeded my capacity to fully load it, I am running SETI@home permanently in background mode. It is extremely well behaved and I must admit that I forget about it for days at time while it continues to chug away.
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