| Personal background |
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| I am currently 32 years old. I was born and raised in Lubbock Texas. I attended Texas Tech University and Eastern New Mexico University. Currently I am an out of work Telecommunications Technician. I have been a technician of one sort or another since I returned from a 3 year excursion into New Mexico in '95. My hobbies include gaming, hacking, building oddball things (for myself and others) and dreaming of space travel. My greatest influences are Gene Roddenberry (for the view of a more perfect world), Isaac Asimov (for the 3 rules of robotics), Carl Sagan (for letting me think of the billions & billions of worlds out there), Michio Kaku, Albert Einstein & Stephen K. Hawkins (for the math & physics that fuel my ponderings) & to all the other great (and sometimes not-so-great) thinkers of our time for trailblazing our path to the stars and the future. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| SETI is not going to change the world over-night. Nor should anything. I think that life does indeed exist. Perhaps not the way we may imagine (i.e. greys). Life will occupy every nook and cranny of the universe that it is given the opportunity to. I think that our first encounters with extraterrestrial life will come within the next hundred years. We'll find it in our own solar system. Probably mostly single cell life. Perhaps we'll find multicellular life under the Europan ice. Perhaps the red planet will hold some life. The main danger of current humans finding life somewhere else will shake the foundations of society. A possible social collapse could ensue. Our concepts of "God" will have to be revised. Religious peoples will object to a non-human (terran) shift in view from biblical texts. NO. Humans should not transmit a beacon for others to find. We are already transmitting tremedous amounts of information out into space with no regard for security. Some militant or otherwise hostile space-faring species might not be the best thing for us to be inviting down for dinner. Just the fact that they are capable of long term/long distance space travel makes them technologically superior to us. We should remember how here on Earth how Aboriginal tribes are decimated to civilise them. Our history is full of such stories. Why should they be any different? Just because they're technologically superior doesn't mean that they have any better sense of morality than we do. Why do I run SETI@home? We're just as likely to hear their rf "noise" just as much as they are ours. Gotta try and hear the noisy neighbors. The project should continue. |
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