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I'm an engineering geologist living in southern California with my wife, Karen, a civil engineer. We enjoy hiking, the ocean, and camping under the stars in areas of low light pollution. I dabble in web design, including our company's site at http://www.mooreandtaber.com/ . I also design and maintain the site for a local forensic engineering group at http://www.asceforensics.org/ . My hobbies include building and networking computers, digital and conventional photography (including astrophotography), and ocean kayaking. We enjoy wine-tasting excursions to some of the local regions, including the Temecula Valley, Santa Barbara, Paso Robles, and Napa/Sonoma. My favorite varietal is zinfandel (and NOT the "white" variety). Karen is an avid musician, and plays electric bass in the church ensemble. I run the church's sound board, and make the digital recordings for the music and sermons. We attend the First Baptist Church of Laguna Hills at http://www.baptistchurch.org/ .
The SETI project is a fascinating endeavor, and I'm happy to share some otherwise "idle" processor time for the cause. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Being raised in the era of Carl Sagan, Star Trek, the Twilight Zone (to name a few), its difficult to concieve of a universe without biodiversity. I suppose that the first question we should consider has to do with the nature of "life" itself. What are the qualifications for being among the living? Consumption, growth, reproduction, and the ability to respond to stimuli are all accepted qualifiers. But how about the Second Law of Thermodynamics (aka "time's arrow")? Do "interruptions" in the path of entropy allow for the possibility of life, or does life provide the "interruptions"? This seems to be SETI's cornerstone, in that the search is for discontinuities in the entropic background radiation may point toward another instance of life.
Do we as a species have the responsibility to transmit a powerful, organized signal stream? With such an exposure to contemporary science-fiction, its hard to not wonder whether or not we would simply be ringing the "dinner-bell"... (remember "How to Cook Humans"?...) |
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