| Personal background |
|---|
Hi, I'm Keith. Why do I do this?
I'm not sure if anything will ever be found, but I enjoy processing the data and finding ways of processing more. I've set some targets and some I'm achieving very well and some not at all yet.
It's good creeping up my space.com group knowing that the nobody who has joined since me is going faster so I can only improve. I have calculated that I'm currently the 22nd or so fastest processor in my group but am only positioned 50th. So this will improve.
However, I loose about 10 places a week in the United Kingdom. This confuses me. If I'm loosing places, then a lot of people must have joined or improved their processing count in the UK recently.
Anyway quite simply, for me, this is fun!
|
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
Hi, Keith again.
Seti@home is a community. I don't talk to anybody at all, but I feel involved in something that may be useful.
I think that we as humans have reached a level of technology that is may be capable of detecting other intelligence. Well maybe an intelligence roughly on par with ourselves. The problem is that there may be others that are as intelligent or far more intelligent than us, which does not necessarily mean that they are therefore friendly or even conscious of us.
It is quite naive of us to assume that sending out messages won't cause us harm, but it sounds like fun so we probably won’t be able to help ourselves anyway.
Usually if we challenge new frontiers, we know something about our possible friends or adversaries before we engage.
The least we need to know is how big their community is compared to ours to see if we would have a chance to survive if we needed it.
I don't see the harm in checking out who is out there, but we should at least wait until the human race is located across a large number of independent worlds before engaging anybody. As a race, there should be plenty of time before we need to interact with other races.
If they are there, I'm sure they will let us know once we manage some feat or other or become a risk to something.
Cheers, Keith.
|
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
|
