| Personal background |
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| Single male, rapidly becoming antique, retired military, thesbian - presently in the chorus of the local community theater's "Once Upon a Mattress", member of federal grand jury for the next year or so, builder and flyer of RC model airplanes, longtime science fiction nut and more recently a fan of The Bangles. SETI Data Units complete: 323 and counting with 1.93 years CPU time. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I am amazed and delighted at the success SETI@home has achieved in making use of otherwise wasted CPU time in what is a truely international volunteer effort and I'm proud to be part of it. As a long time sci-fi reader I'm familiar with much of the popular speculation on the existance of ET life and the possible results of contact. Do *I* think ET life exists? Given the size and the complexity of the universe, I don't see how it could not. Intelligent Life? Again, how could there not? I suspect that evolution selects for intelligence and given sufficient time... Will we discover it? "Ah, there's the rub." It is rather a large galaxy and I doubt that life is as common as Poul Anderson or C.J. Cherryh et.al. would have us believe. Benefits and dangers? Not enough space here to intelligently discuss it. Should we xmit a beacon? No! Sometimes paranoia is a good thing. Besides, our planet already transmits more intensley than many radio stars. I run SETI@home because I want to be part of an historic undertaking and, should the project succeed I will take great pleasure in having been part of it. |
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