Profile: Ted Frohling

Personal background
I live and work in Tucson, Arizona, USA as an Assistant Director of network services for the University of Arizona. My wife and I have been together for 33 years and hope to enjoy many more years together. We are both avid cyclists and USCF Masters Racers. Training includes commuting ~20 miles to and from work several times a week.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I got interested in SETI in 1999 and started running it on
machines at my house and at work. I believe that there is life `out there'. We can't be so limited in our beliefs to reject such an idea. The SETI project performs a worthwhile service in the name of service and mankind trying to verify that we are not alone. We are transmitting beacons to others every day, but not in any coordinated way. Can you just imagine some other being seeing `Survivor' many years hence and wondering what it's all about? We ought to send a coordinated beacon with a signal directed outward rather than
horizontally as is the case now. The beacon should consist of a stream of data that would make us standout from the inter-galactic noise, just like what SETI is looking for. The content is less important, since the source of the beacon will be known by the remote listeners and they will know that we exist.
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