| Personal background |
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| I'm a professional pilot living in Huntingburg, Indiana. I'm a would-be amateur astronomer except that there's too much light pollution around my house and Southern Indiana is either too hot or too cold or too buggy and a leg on my tripod collapsed recently damaging my telescope mount. Other than that ... I'm there. (Candice gets credit by way of owning half of the computers in the house but I actually do all the work.) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Part One
Q: Do you think extraterrestrial life exists?
A: Only on Saturday nights as the old joke goes. But, yes, I do. When all other possibilities have been eliminated, what remains must be the truth. By a mushroom hunter around the year 2479, by which time I should have completed about 192 work units at the present rate. Benefits: We can stop searching for extraterrestrials and dedicate the computer time toward looking for my garage door opener. Dangers: They could be in the middle of an election year and to be polite we might be required to watch all of their political ads.
2. Part Two
Q: Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?
A: No! No beacons! We already transmit enough garbage into space without adding another source. Since no one ever takes my advice, the information we should transmit on "the beacon" is to "Stay Away! We have flu germs, the common cold and bursitis which makes us cranky. If you come we will have to quarantine you and your pets for several eons and we won't build it." We should probably run that by an grammatician person for style.
3. Part Three
Q: Why do you run SETI@home?
A: Both of our computers are at home so it just seems to make sense to do it this way. I'm kind of amazed that there are so many resources dedicated to the project. If so many people are so interested, who am I to say no? Suggestion: Charles Lindburgh won $25,000 to discover Paris. I wouldn't say no to a prize if our computers were the first ones to get a hit. BTW have you tried searching on Google? |
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