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| Personal background |
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I am a 44 year-old geek and stay-at-home dad.
My hobbies include trains, astronomy, cats, Victorian houses, shortwave radio, Macintosh computers, working out, long walks, city living, renaissance festivals, good food, belly dancing and belly dance music (known as Raqs Sharqi), Jazz/Swing/Big Band, and Classical music, Christmas, some gardening, relaxing on the porch, and being with my family (I love being a dad!).
I run BOINC/SETI@HOME on my 2.66GHZ Intel Core (quad core) Macintosh under MacOS X 10.7.5, Someday I'll have a Mac cluster so I can crunch even more data units. I wanted to run the program when I first learned about it back in 1996, when it was called Big Science, and joined as soon as the project was released to the world in May 1999. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I do believe there is life out there. It would be incredibly egotistical of humans to think they are the only intelligent thing in all of existence, and humans are already excellent at thinking themselves to be incredibly important, special and the center of all things. I run SETI@Home for I believe we can and will find someone out there, we just have to be patient and do the work to find them, or perhaps they will find us. But I think they have a Star Trek-like Prime Directive of non-interference with developing worlds that are simply not advanced enough yet to become cosmic citizens. Humans are violent, revengeful, self-centered, territorial, secretive, greedy, deceitful, and, for the most part, blind, ignoring morals and ethics whenever it interferes with their true values of money, property, and power. Take a good look at the actions of people, especially those in authority (the Bush Administration having been a special case). And there are too many people who do not do their own thinking. Some of them let religion do it for them, others allow the news media, celebrities, or corporations do it. I think it is only when humans grow up will we be able to listen in on the communications of other civilizations, and then communicate with them. |
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