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| Personal background |
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| I am a geek of germanic descent. Educated with a Bachelor of Science, my major was in Physics and my minor in Mathematics. I also have a Bachelor of Business Admin in Accounting, and am contemplating a Bachelor of Computer Science (to shore up my self-taught knowledge with an actual piece of sheepskin). My interests know no bounds, although my long-term hobbies include computers (especially restoring vintage Macs), the Internet, Animé (and Manga) of a more serious and mature nature, Science Fiction, Fantasy, classical and modern dance music, and scientific atheism (I am a Geshel by nature). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The universe is so large, that the statistical probability that we are the only intelligent life is infintesimally small. There are other intelligent species out there. However, we are such a destructive species ourselves, that we cannot assume that they are peaceful and benevolent. Just because they might have made it into interstellar space doesn’t mean that they have stopped killing each other.
We should transmit a beacon, but not because we think the aliens don’t know about us. If there are any in the neighborhood, they know about us, for sure. What we need is a really big wakeup call. A massive, cultrual-shock slap in the face. As a species, we are wasting our energies with religion, wars, regional pride and cultural infighting. We need to be shocked into realizing that there are bigger issues at stake than weather one god is better than the other, or who happens to be in charge of a dirt-poor african country. What we need is a truly democratic world government (and I said democratic... America is a republic, not a democracy) that is for the people and of the people. Only when regional pride and hubris is destroyed will the human race as a whole be able to push forward to our rightful place in the Universe with the energies we require to do so.
Of course, my talk about pride isn’t all that free of irony. My initial reason for running Seti@home was for the science. But as my stats rose, it also became about bragging rights and pride. After all, I am only human. |
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