| Personal background |
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| I'm a junior attending Stony Brook University, graduation hopefully, if everything goes well, in May of 2003 and then off for my masters degree. I'm a business management major, but I thoroughly enjoy astronomy and the search for ET life as a hobby. Since I'm still in college and don't have a real official full time job with a nice juicy salary and fringe benefits just yet, I work in the summer at the beach. I'm technically a foreman, and my technical job is to hang around the office and make sure things get done right (and no one loses an eye), but I consider myself a higher paid slave. I make more money than the people who I tell what to do, but I still get treated like dirt from the highest level supervisors, which is why I'm putting in for a transfer to another park for this summer. It's my last summer before I graduate and hit the real world, so I want it to be an enjoyable one. One of the best parts of working at the beach (or most other New York State Parks) is that the sky doesn't get wrecked by streetlights, so once the sun is gone, you can see clearly forever. All you need is a good telescope and you can stick around after work in the middle of the parking lot for a while and just look as far as you can. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think extraterrestrial life exists, but if we ever found it, we'd be disappointed to learn that it's just a distant race of human being (or canine, feline, etc...) look-alikes at various stages in historic development. Humans should transmit a beacon just for the sake of seeing what happens, but should not be let down when nothing is discovered in this or the next 1000 lifetimes.
I run SETI@home because I would like to believe my theories are wrong and we will, in fact, find someone or something entirely different from anything we've ever seen before. I'm not optimistic, but if we were to make a striking discovery, I would like to say I was a part of it, or perhaps I was crunching the numbers from which the discovery was made. |
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