| Personal background |
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I currently live in Oregon after moving from Texas where I grew up. My work caused me to relocate. I like Oregon, but I don't know if I would call it home yet. However, it is beginning to feel like home. It is greener during the year and not as hot during the summers. Winters are similar, but not as cold here. I am used to more sunshine, but it isn't too cloudy during the winter. However, these have been untypical years so I'm still not sure about winter yet. I do like having snow, but not enough to move to real snow country.
I work in Engineering as a mechanical designer. I also assist the IT/IS Department as I have an affinity with computers and things related to computers. That is probably my mechanical bent showing again.
I like reading, tennis, fishing, and playing with computers. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I like SETI@home as a project. It allows many to contribute to the answer of whether there is extraterrestrial life. I do not know if extraterrestrial life exists, but I think it rather vain of humans to think this is all for them. I occassionally think about Douglas Adams ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") view and wonder if we are a case study. If we are, I'm not convinced we are passing. I also think of Gary Larson's cartoon where God is pulling the Earth out of the oven and wondering if it was only "half baked". As a species, I think humans still have a loooonnnnnnggggg way to go.
Like any project, it is hard to tell when you will get that "A-HA" moment. Maybe we will find them, maybe they will find us. As an optimist, I hope they find us and first contact goes well. I'm just not sure what ET will make of 200 governments trying to be "the spokesperson". As a pessimist, I think that ET will find us, consider humans a waste of a planet and take it from us. The realist in me says "Get real."
The optimist part of me wants to send out a signal. An 8 bit signal from 0 to 255 in binary, no start, no stop bits using dit-dah sounds that repeats should be sufficient. The pessimist in me says "you have too much to lose". They will only kick us off the sand hill. The realist in me says "why bother?" |
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