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| Personal background |
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Aw, shucks. That's me, scudding across San Diego bay some years ago. I like bigger boats these days, and getting out of sight of land. Blue-water cruising. No mail, no market reports, no leaves to rake. Always something to fix or fiddle with. And at night you can really see the stars.
If you want to know where I came from, find Sam Hinton's song "It's a Long Way From Amphioxus." The good folks at the San Diego Historical Society have it online.
I do remember being raised in Europe, by two of the nicest people you could imagine. For still more about me, find and read the tale of Brjam (that's the Irish spelling).
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extra-terrestial life exist? Probably, based on the numbers. Is any of it intelligent? Maybe, but we might have trouble making this call. Have we reached a consensus on
some of our local species (cetaceans, for instance) yet? Okay, back to the syllabus. Should we transmit a beacon? No, we don't have much to say yet. Maybe after we tidy up around here. What we dream about in our fiction is finding life that's more advanced that we are, and I don't mean just faster ships.I run SETI@home (and give to the program - you can, too) because it's important work. Even if we never hear from ET, we'll have spent our time considering the possibility, and maybe our day-to-day decisions will be improved just a bit by that awareness.
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