| Personal background |
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| I'm a Bio-Engineering student at Syracuse University, beginning my graduate study in the fall ( of '02). I'm 23 years old, and originally from Rochester, NY. In my spare time, I like to mess around with my computer, play Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, I LOVE repairing cars & trucks, lifting weights (slowly getting myself into good enough condition to play semi-pro football after I get out of school) and watching movies with my girlfriend. During the semester, I hardly have any time for my hobbies. I hope to be a real engineer when I grow up. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think SETI@home is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I'm serious when I say the guys that hatched the idea should win the nobel prize. It's BEAUTIFUL. With the explosion of silicon technology, and the insane popularity of computers in peoples' homes these days, there is such a TREMENDOUS resource of computing power that is available, yet is totally ignored; Until SETI@home came along. Now that all of a sudden it's "coooool" to have a computer, and there are so many around, there is a way to put a whole load of them to good use when we're not listening to MP3's or watching DVD's, or surfing the net. Here is an application that requires a TON of computing power, and the SETI@home guys found a way to allow us to donate our computing cycles, and in the end, we're able to grind through so much per day that we can actually make a difference in this gigantic undertaking. I'm also really glad to see others finding applications for distributed computing such as United Devices who are looking for a cure for cancer through brute force computation.
As for life existing in other places in the universe, I believe the answer is a GIANT, irrefutable, undeniable YES. In the vast expanses of the universe, anything that doesn't have a probability of zero, WILL happen. Also, there is life at the bottom of the ocean in freezing water, next to hydrothermal vents. If life can occur there, it can occur ANYWHERE. To think that we're the only intelligent things in the universe seems just plain egotistical to me. |
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