Profile: NewAlexandria

Personal background
Living in PIttsburgh, PA and working as a database programmer in the area. Recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon's school of Art where I was making Kirlian Cameras for bioelectric field (aura) research and investigating it's similarities to Wilhelm Reich's principle of the Orgone, Viktor Schauberger's ideas on living water, and the intersection of all of these to sonoluminescence. I am now working heavily with indigenous botanical 'technologies' that were cultivated by the native peopels of North and South America.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I got interested in SETI when I was quite young, long before there was ever an '@home' client. I used to make small donations back in high school and such and generelly spread the word where possible. I was so excited when the seti@home client came out because it finally gave my computer something to do when it wasn't being directly used (before this i had to write elaborate batch-rendering scripts to keep the cycles burning). I think the project has a good goal, but I think that overall, it's likely that the scan medium is not going to be where any 'alien signals' are going to come from. Our general perception of the electromagnetic spectrum are very immature and the notion that any advanced civilzation would use such a crude medium for communication is ridiculous. To broadcast on this medium is even more ridiculous - is anythign we'd probably cause lots of interference. If we're actually intersted in sending any sort of message we should look to use the largest field we have available for transmission: the Earth's magnetosphere. This field pulses with changing weather and vegitation patterns on the Earth and is the best exemplifier of what's happening on the planet. if we can 'tap' on this field and use the moon as a 'resonator' of sorts we could send rather large pulses ot into space for other civ's to notice - and it'd show a level of technological maturity and mastery a bit deeper than small noisy machines.
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