| Personal background |
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| I'm currently a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I went to Columbia University as an undergrad, and I attended the Idyllwild Arts Academy (then known as the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts - ISOMATA) for high school. I enjoy romantic walks on the beach. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think extraterrestrial life probably exists somewhere, but the chances of our encountering it are pretty rare. I don't expect SETI@home to find anything, but the concept of a web-based community based on a distributed computing project is interesting.
Humans should not transmit a beacon. That generally requires the use of fossil fuels, and we have better things to do with them, like not burning them so we don't die a tragic, landscape altered, polluted death. We already create too much light pollution and such anyway. Why would we dump our electromagnetic pollution on those nice aliens? |
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