Profile: Cap'n Bob

Personal background
Native Southern Californian, born in 1943. Working as a software systems engineer for satellite payload products. Have been an amateur radio operator since 1957 (AJ6F). Enjoy backyard astronomy, computer hobby stuff. Otherwise my wife and I enjoy puttering around our home on various projects from gardening to trying new recipes.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Given the size of the cosmos (all four dimensions), I feel there is a very good chance of ETI. I only hope that I am alive when the contact is made.

A beacon would be like a sigh in a hurricane, even at the waterhole; not to discard the possibility that someone out there has enough power to get noticed, but our technology and economics likely can't produce a noticible beacon among the gigawatts of stellar and other noises. At this time, Jupiter produces more radiant energy than all Earthbound radiation, intentional or otherwise. I would like to think that if we do send a beacon that the old favorite universal ratio of PI would be sent to several decimal places.

I run SETI because I have a lot of interest in the cosmos, the project and of course, I am a nerd. I run it on my home computers (3 of them) and use it as a screen saver at work. I belong to our corporate SETI group.
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