| Personal background |
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John Athayde is an artist, filmmaker, musician, traveler, and designer. When he is not emotionally attached to a website, he is building theatre sets, making films, writing and performing music with Rotoscope (www.rotoscope.com), or any number of other activities. He hopes to soon add a chocolate Labrador to his family.
John holds a Master's degree in architecture from the Catholic University of America and is currently a multimeda projects manager at RTKL Associates Inc (www.rtkl.com) in their Washington DC office.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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First off, distributed computing is where it is at. The more things like this the better - especially in the world of underfunded research. Secondly, the way the system works is quite well done (kudos to the initial berkeley crew).
I think that if an alien civilization recieved some of the crud that goes across our airwaves that they would avoid us at all costs. In regard to us getting out more (as far as near earth orbit is concerned), if the US had remained on the fevered pitch of Kennedy era space exploration that happened throughout the 1960s, we'd easily be doing the things that we still have to watch Kubrick films to do (2001). It is the final frontier, and the world needs something to kick it in the proverbial rear to notice that 1.) little squabbles are irrelevant and 2.) we need to work together to achive a common goal. |
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