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| Personal background |
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I'm a twentysomething software developer and sysadmin, slaving away in the new economy. Life isn't bad these days though. I telecommute 100%, and make a decent living, which is better than most these days. Piles of machines all around, radios (budding ham), and audio equipment. Snowboard in the closet for half the year, paintball gun for the other half, and a pool cue for all year round.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Hmm.. I can say I am a firm believer in intelligent ET life.. but I've no clue if we'll ever find it or any evidence of it. As for benefits and dangers.. It's hard to say if there would be much of either. If you're an altruistic type you may think that the discovery of ET, hostile or friendly, would bring mankind together, but we're an unpredictable and irrational species.
As for transmitting a beacon, sure, why not. I don't think we should attempt to send any "information" as such. Translation would be sketchy at best, and given the distances involved, would take centuries. Just a nice, stable signal would be best IMHO, something that says "we're here, we wan't you to know we can talk, and we can listen as well."
I think the project is admirable, and I participate just to keep my machines doing something worthwhile other than sucking power. I've been running different distributed projects on different machines since dnetc first came out more or less. Some of them run SETI, some Folding@Home. dnetc I've more or less given up on, it has proven its point.
This is an updated profile and picture, the first time I've updated ever.. that's 5 years.. heh. |
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