| Personal background |
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| I'm currently living in Albuquerque, NM, am 21 years old, and work as a phone operator for qwest (someone please shoot me). I am obsessed with music from every angle, that is, listening to it, performing it, composing it. I hope to start college before long and go into electrical engineering. I also am an ecclectic Wiccan, and open-minded. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
For me, it is harder to believe that it doesn't exist. The size of the universe is infinite, and for Earth to be the only one with life on it... that seems like a waste of space, so to speak. It seems arrogant to assume that we are the only intelligent life. I believe that it would make sense the ET's would be discovered first through radio transmissions, whether or not they were intended for us. As for the dangers: 1) they could have had to leave their home planet because of overpopulation and are looking for new places to settle in, 2) looking at how we behave toward each other, imagine what it will be like when aliens arrive ("Nuke the little green bastards, just like 'dem damn towel-heads!) As for benefits, for them to travel all this distance shows they are obviously much more advanced than us as far as technology... perhaps in thinking, too?
2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
I don't see the harm in a beacon, but I do believe the information should be kept very limited... simply because they are looking for other life does not necessarily mean that they are peaceful, though it would be great if they were.
3. Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
Well, I have a new computer on a cable modem with plenty of speed and power... what better way to use some of it? Anyway, the subject is of interest to me, I believe that SETI is a very good idea, SETI@home is an incredibly good idea, and the only suggestion i can think of would be making it so that people can pause/go back a few frames in the program and print if something looks particularly interesting (while the actual program still runs, maybe). |
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