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| Personal background |
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| I work as a project manager for a large pharma company. When not working, I can be found working on my classic Ford Mustang. I've got my eyes to the sky, as I enjoy astronomy. Things I like to do for fun are to play volleyball, swim, and underwater basket weaving (those college skills never seem to die). I'm also known as a movie buff, and will easily watch 5-6 movies a week. Single women are encouraged to contact me! ;-) Ha ha. Seriously though.. I'm just here to enjoy life and have a good time. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists?
Yes, I believe extraterrestrial life exists.
If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
I believe that the way these questions are worded are inherently dangerous. It makes the assumption that we will be discovering aliens. Most likely they could probably discover us. We as humans like to interact with our environment, so the benefits of such a discovery are being able to interact with another life - as we do with life on earth. The dangers of a discovery could be looked at from two angles. One is - how do we treat life that we discover? Will we hold it under a microscope and not share with anyone else? My worldview is that whoever does discover life, will probably intitially try to keep it a secret - or maybe make a big announcment but any interactions a secret, which is unfortunate and goes against the concept of discovery and sharing. The second angle is how will the extraterrestrial life treat us? Images portrayed by movies such as "Independence Day" or "Alien" portray aliens as the "bad guys". It would be interesting though, to find out that we might be no longer on top of the food chain. A humbling experience to say the least.
2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
Simply put, if we want to be found, yes, we should transmit a beacon. If we don't want to be found - then don't bother. What message should we send is an interesting question. How do we want to portray the human race. We like to think that we're infallible - so I think the thing is to transmit everything about the human race...the good, the bad, the ugly.
3. Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
I run SETI@home because I like the concept of distributed computing - I also run other various distributed computing project agents, such as United Devices etc. My views of the project are optimistic. L |
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