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| Personal background |
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| We, and I say we, because seti is a family project with us, live in Mesa, Arizona, USA. Our house is network *wired* and we are running 5 computers here. I also have seti loaded at work and anyone else I can get to run it. We are a computer/electronic family in work and play. I am the IT Manager where I work; my wife, Fatma, is an electronic assembler; my son, Louis, works for me as a MCSE/network administrator; my eldest daughter, Mihrage, attends the University of Advanced Computer Technology; my middle daughter, Aylin, sadly is disabled with autism; and the youngest, Christina, is a senior in High School thinking maybe of becoming an engineer. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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To us, the existance, now or in the past, or developing in the future of intellegent life outside this planet is almost as certain as the existance of any form of life outside this planet. Star Trek and warp drive not withstanding, we first have to realize that signals from most parts of space are thousands, if not millions of years old when they arrive here. When trans-lightspeed travel becomes available is when we may find our neighbors in space. In the meantime, searching for the possible signals from another world remains our only currently viable alternative with any hope of success, even though the chance is very slim.
As to sending a beacon of our own, what could it hurt. If we are lucky enough to survive long enough as a species, we may get an answer. And lets not be so arrogant as to assume others use radios the way we do, a simple, clearly non-naturally occuring repetitive signal, perhaps near but not exactly on the frequency of the cosmic background noise. Should seti find some likely places to point at, then we should start by sending to those places first. Regardless, until a probe, manned or otherwise, actually goes to a distant planetary system, we are forced to continue with speculation alone. But can we afford not to dream? I think not.
We run seti here to be a part, abeit a small one, in this grand world-wide cooperative effort. We believe that whoever came up with the concept of a world-wide network of participants should get the Nobel Prize.
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