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| Personal background |
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I am Australian.
Life Story: I was born in Fern Tree Gully, Victoria. I lived in Melbourne until early secondary school, when I moved to rural city with my family. I spent 4.5 years there finishing secondary school. I recently moved back alone to Melbourne to study at Monash University.
I am doing a Bachelor of Science. My primary interests are Psychology and Computer Science, (though due to course structure I am also doing two units of Maths, and one unit of Geography and Astronomy). I hope to do six years of study and register as a psychologist.
Born 1984, I am male, slender, tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, and supposedly I am highly intelligent. (I wish I felt that way :-(
I am a devout Atheist, hence I do not believe praying to a god(s) will solve any problems, ever. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life exists. Humans will discover earthlike planets using telescopes like Kepler. These planets will be studied latter with the TPF and NGST telescopes.
If life is detected, there will be pushes for powerful telescopes capable of taking direct images the planets.
The benefits of these discoveries are numerous. They will give figures to planet and life formation theories, and more figures for the Drake Equation. Knowing planet locations will help SETI greatly.
There will be enormous public interest. Funding will increase for space agencies and research groups.
Transmitting a beacon? It would be foolish to immediately reveal all. Observe first, gather information. Assess what potential intelligences are like and how they think. Only then consider sending a signal, putting much thought into its contents and nature. If intelligence is found we should cease emanating radio signals from earth before drawing attention.
The initial message should be simply "Hello?" with small amounts of interesting but useless information, such as some old mathematical theorems, basic solar system diagrams without identification, the largest prime number yet found, instructions for chess and the formula for finding pi digit. Give the minimum signal strength and the wavelength needed to reply.
Why? Obvious. When dealing with an unknown mind, you shouldn't reveal much about yourself, while trying to extract as much information from them. Caution is a good trait.
I run S@h because extraterrestrial intelligence is interesting. I think the chances of this project succeeding soon are pretty low, but still high enough to be worthwhile. (You'll *never* hear them if you don't listen). Other reasons I run S@h are because I have plenty of spare CPU cycles, and free electricity.
Suggestions? The network coder should contact distributed.net and share proxy authentication code. I am behind a squid proxy server, and while programs like the dnet client and lynx work flawlessly, S@h has problems. |
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