| Personal background |
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It's sorta weird that I'm participating in this. I saw it on an aquaintance's machine, and thought, "Wow, I'd like to do that." I have a rather large and fast nachine, the resources of which are generally grossly underused, so it seemed like something I could do for science, the planet, or whatever without any effort or performance degredation. That's proven true.
While a born cynic and sceptic, I'd love to see SETI succeed and maybe, just maybe, my first cut massaging of data will help achieve the goal of Carl Sagan.
Sagan, as most everyone knows, smoked marijuana by the bale. I'm not in that league, but enjoy a bowl now and then. I doubt if I'd bothered if it wasn't for Sagan; who can forget COSMOS?
As for myself, I'm a 57 year old retired I.T. director for a very large (>8k nodes) network. I'm a proudly gay man (I mention this because I feel it's important for people to realize how we queers permeate society and are involved in every aspect of human endeavor) who lives alone with a couple of obnoxious cats. My primary hobbies are reading (non-fiction) and photography. I'm an accredited journalist and former newspaper columnist, now free-lancing a bit. Who knows, maybe I'll write a bit on SETI and shop it around. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I said I was a cynic and sceptic. I sincerely doubt that intelligence as we know, define and think of it exists elsewhere in the universe - some life form, perhaps, but so alien (pardon the pun) to our concepts as to be virtually non-existant.
Should we transmit a beacon? We aren't? I'm shocked. I'd have thought some acedemic or government institution was. Of course we should; it never hurts to try and I'd like to see myself proven wrong.
What should we send? Just some binary signal in a form that demonstrates it was constructed by quasi-intelligent beings. Keep it very simple.
I think I answered number 3 in the previous section. I don't have the knowledge base to make suggestions in the field of astrophysics; I'll leave that to those who do. |
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