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| Personal background |
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Origin: Descended from old English money, Vidicon was raised by a pack of distempered dingoes in the mountainous rainforests of the North American Southeast. He was inevitably captured by platoon of well-meaning trans-temporal black-ops Shao Lin French Foreign Legion chaplains in the secret employ of P2 and reintroduced into a society against which satire is a barely sufficient defense.
He fell for the deadfall baited with clove cigarettes and glamour photography featuring wallabies in leather jackets.
Vidicon will test positive for the following controlled substances: testosterone, caffeine, theobromine, ethanol, nicotine, Algernon Swinburne, human growth hormone, political discontent, serotonin, animal proteins, human blood, monosodium glutamate, transhumanism, thujone, powdered sugar, Gothic temperament, mojo sauce, woodgies, anomie, and hummus. Some of the above, he doubtfully claims, was administered against his will.
Superpowers: Vidicon is way too smart for his own good. He also loads his pockets with enough miscellanous weird stuff to single-handedly jump-start civilization just in case there's a spontaneous collapse. "McGuyver is a [obscene participle referring to the act of sexual intercourse] [feline epithet idiomatically linked to female genitalia]," he's been known to say. Also, on a more mystical front, Vidicon is a world-class synchronicity-surfer and a practicing (but unlicensed) Quantum Mechanic. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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On the whole, I kinda think of the SETI project as a bunch of gang-thieves posting an eight-year-old as a lookout in the middle of the downtown ghetto.
It needs to be done, the interstellar equivalent of urban reclamation and all --and those are my homeys doin' bidnez on dis block.
But the whole project is half-assed and ill-considered. Largely because it is underfunded.
I'd recommend a hardware version of the project -- one that can be installed as a card in a PC or hooks up to a firewire or USB connector for something even less invasive -- and let the people who truly want to help pay a few bucks to cover the price of manufacturing and distribution.
It might even be possible to distribute a kind of dongle to run distributed code for all kinds of universally helpful projects -- protein folding simulations, number crunching for medical studies, etc., and maybe the participants (voltage/bandwidth donors) could get a tiny tax break or something.
As far as whether SETI will prove anything, well... if the project discovers nothing, then it will have ruled some things out and we can look elsewhere.
We ought to consider seriously that there might be other civilizations out there that are savvy enough to receive, but not powerful enough to send, and set up our own beacon. It might be much easier to be seen than to search, given the current level of technological advancement.
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