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| Personal background |
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| I live and work in the greater Nashville, Tennessee (USA) area. I direct the software development for a large, community-based, mental health center. I am married and my wife and I have two grown children, one of whom is a physicist, and the other of whom is an engineer. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have been running SETI@home since May of 1999, first on an old Windows 95 machiine, then on two boxes running freeBSD 4.8 and now on 4 boxes running debian linux (actually ubuntu). Is SETI@home a good way to search the sky for signs of intelligent life? One might be tempted to think that if technologically sophisticated life (TSL) were common, SET@home would have heard by now. But, the physics of intragalactic gases means that any reasonably sharp signal will be smeared out across a number of frequencies; SETI@home has looked at far too few of those frequencies, to say nothing of having seen far too little of the sky for anyone to say with confidence that we are alone.
Are we alone? I don't know, but I have my doubts. Yet either case, that TSL is common, or that we are the only example, has profound implications for our species. |
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