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| Personal background |
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| I'm a 21 year old California native. I'm a computer/network technician at (shameless plug) Alameda Business Machines. My spare time is spent working on my servers at home (which host my website as well as do a wee bit if SETI@Home number crunching :), programming in PERL, and the like. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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When people as do I think there's other life in the universe, I have to respond, just look at the variance of life here on earth! There are literally thousands of species, millions of individual life forms, just here on our little sphere, in a vast range of climates and environments, from the icy peaks of mountains to the boiling vents in the darkness of the ocean floor. If such a variety can exist on one planet, just think of the variety that could exist, out there. To sum it up, there's gotta be some other life out there.
Transmitting a beacon surely couldn't hurt, but as several notable scientists have pointed out, the human race has only been sending signals out into space for about 60 years or so. The chances of those signals having reached an inhabited star system yet are remote. However, I think we should transmit a signal, with some basic, basic information about our position in the galaxy, and perhaps some (we hope) universal mathmatical symbol, like the first ten primes. In the mean time, let's keep listening...
I run SETI@Home for one simple reason: It's a grand feeling to know that you're part of something special. I'm not concerned with being the one who's computers detect the signal, more than I am with being part of something that could fundamentally change the lives of every human on Earth. |
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