Profile: rix

Personal background
formerly a clay artist, also formerly a chef, now a winemaker and musician in beautiful floyd county virginia usa. since i am not given to lengthy, laborious fits of babbling, that's just about all you're gonna get. ...the rest can be a misty little mystery tugging at the edges of your thoughts from time to time; or please feel free to come up with whatever details you might think up, get back to me, and we'll see....
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
>Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?

yes. knowing us, by accident, when we least expect it. benefits: the benefits of befriending benevolent, advanced beings are like a couple quantum steps above winning the super lottery. otherwise, well, i prefer the optomistic stance while it remains unknown. why worry about being struck by an asteroid either.

>Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?

well, i guess we are in a way already doing it. and the info is all over the place. beacon to what coordinates? there's a whole lot of sky. perhaps the nearby places first. send them pix of us. (sounds expensive. i'd actually rather spend that on developing returnable space probes.)

>Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?

help out, find e t. like all of us in here. i think it is great. i think this model of distributed computing is an important development and could be put to use in the development of pharmaceuticals, weather forecasting, and other "super use" computer tasks.
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