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| Personal background |
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| I am a 36 year old embedded computer programmer and a small time real estate investor. I work in a dark cave-like basement in Atlanta near my alma mater Georgia Tech. I am married with three children ages 2 months, 2 years, and 3 years. My 19 year old nephew is also part of our family and teaches me all the new things I need to know to maintain my cool and hip persona. My wife and I are very concerned with the growing underpopulation crisis and plan to have ten kids to do our part to reverse this. I am interested in theology, astronomy, meteorology, and I like to write, especially stories about the bizzare things that befall me in the city. I am keenly interested in economics, politics, underpopulation, and the Intelligent Design Movement. I recommend Dembski's The Design Revolution to anyone who wants to read a book that may help usher in the next great scientific paradigm shift. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do not believe that life exists outside of our planet. Most modern folks, especially SETI buffs, would decry me as arrogant for this. However, when one considers all the conditions necessary for any sort of life and fleshes out the Drake equation accordingly, the probablity of life melts down below Dembski's Universal Probability Bound of 1 in 10^150. Any probablity below this bound must be considered impossible. Don't dismiss me as a nutacase for challenging the exsiting orthodoxy but rather educate yourself. I recommend these very accessible books for your condideration: The Privileged Planet by Gonzalez and Richards, The Design Revolution by Dembski, and Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men by Ross, Samples, and Clark.
Then why do I run SETI? Well, for a number of good reasons. First, I think it is a great application for distributed computing which has enourmous promise for advancing computing in general. As we reach the physical limits of single processor boxes we will be forced to go parallel to keep up with the performance implications of Moore's Law. Distributed computing is a logical extention of such parallelization.
Second, while it is impossible to prove empirically that we are alone without visiting every corner of the cosmos, the more time that is spent searching in futility lends empirical credance to this view.
Third, I run SETI in support of the Intelligent Design movement. Most of the modern scientific community mocks the ID movement as unscientific claiming that design cannot be reliably detected. This strawman burns up with with one word, "SETI!" |
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