|
| Personal background |
|---|
I am a master's student at Virgina Tech studying Human Factors Engineering (part of Industrial and Systems Engineering). I received my BSIE at the University of Arkansas. I am 23 years old and still a student! Industrial Engineers are obsessed with efficiency, so naturally, just having a computer idly run all day for the little bit of internet traffic it receives is crazy! I run SETI because it is a way for me to contribute to the search and it keeps my server hopping! (Not to mention that I have learned a lot about the differences between AMD and Intel processors!).
I am an outdoorsy person and I love to travel. I have only lived in one other country: Germany. I loved Europe when I lived there, and I hope to get the chance to do it again. The world is full of interesting people, and I want to meet most of them! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
I believe there might be life outside the confines of this planet. When and how will we discover it? Who knows. I don't think we will detect anything significant until we discover how to transmit energy faster than the speed of light and start scanning those bands, but I am not saying this search is futile. Each search and discovery of possiblity brings the reach of extraterestrial life closer to the lives of every citizen of the human race. At this point, humans are still a paranoid and otherwise infantile species. I believe making first contact right now would bring about a hysteria that would end the lives of a significant portion of the life on this planet. (And what would our galactic neighbors think of that?). World religions need to see that there is a place for life outside this planet in their beliefs, first, and I believe that Christianity, at least, is headed that way.
I think transmitting a beacon would be futile. Where would you aim it? If we detect a signal, I think we should send a message to the source of that signal. What information depends on how much we can send. It must be noted that at current transmission speeds, it would take many years to get that message to the source, and many years to get a reply...if they are listening. |
| 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 |
|
|
