|
| Personal background |
I am a 38 year-old geek. For a job I work as a Project Coordinator for Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control in Pittsburgh, On the weekends I work once again in The Great Miniature Railroad and Village at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh.
My hobbies include trains, astronomy, cats, Victorian houses, shortwave radio, Macintosh computers, long walks, city living, good food, 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 dual processor 533mhz Macintosh G4 under MacOS X 10.4.8, Once I find my ethernet hub I plan to also run it on my Ubuntu Linux machine. 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.
The photo that goes with my profile was taken while I worked in The Great Miniature Railroad and Village at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, the best job I have ever had! (the second was working at Allegheny Observatory helping in the search for extra-solar planets) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
| 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 being 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 (through advertising) 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. |
| Feedback op dit profiel |
| Dit profiel voordragen als 'Gebruiker van de Dag': | Ik keur dit profiel goed |
| Meld dit profiel als aanstootgevend aan de administrator: | Ik keur dit profiel af |
|
|
