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| Personal background |
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I'm a programmer working in San Francisco, California, USA. I used to work in the multimedia industry, but as you might know that is pretty much dead. I still work for a small company, but writing business software just isn't as exciting as media. Oh well.
One day I'd like to write my own operating system. I have a friend who is working on his own Java OS and I think that is pretty cool. I'm interested in a lot of computer and electronics related subjects. I'm also an electrical engineer.
My biggest interest right now is politics/economics which seems to be the same thing to me. That is, all politics seems to be about allocation of resources, which is economics. Anyway, I think that all the war and terrorism and violence in the world CAN be solved. I don't know how to do it yet, but I want to talk with people and share ideas until we all figure this out together. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I started running SETI@home because I thought about all the wasted CPU cycles and electricity that goes in to having computers on all the time. I think the project is a good idea, and is something that may one day bring about some exciting changes in the way humans view the world.
I do believe that there is extraterrestrial intelligent life. Unfortunately, I doubt we will be able to find it by the brute force searching method. I think that such intelligent life will make itself known to us. We can't predict or prepare for any dangerous encounter, as whomever finds us will likely be far more powerful than us. We must depend on cosmic good will.
I feel that the SETI@home project is mostly a really good experiment in distributed supercomputing. I think this field can be applied in ways that will eventually benefit humankind in some very important ways. I hope the SETI@home system could one day be used to model the world economy and show us how to feed, shelter and educate our entire species. Perhaps that is the only way we can prepare for a future encounter with beings from other worlds.
By the way, I do believe people who say they've had such encounters already. I see no reason to believe that we haven't yet been visited. And I can certainly see why visitors would want to hide and even discredit their presence. They are probably watching us look for their transmissions and laughing because there is some much more efficient information transport method of which we know nothing... |
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