| Personal background |
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I'm a happily married father of two girls (15 and 4). I work as a software architect in the Pacific Northwest, and am the author of two technical books (yes, I'm a geek - and disturbingly proud of it...).
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I actually meant to join the SETI@home effort about a year before I did. It seems to be one of the more intelligent ideas I've seen around the sticky issue of doing profound things (like searching for life on other planets) while remembering that there are only so many resources to go around. I currently run SETI@home on 2 systems. I must admit that I wonder about the people in my "registration class" that managed to rack up several *year* of computing time in their first month on SETI, but I appreciate them making me feel less like a fanatic.
I can't say that I "believe" that extraterrestrial life exists, but I also don't "not believe." I suspect that some other form of life exists out there (seems like typical human arrogance that would think that, with billions of planets in each of billions of galaxies, we would be so special). The questions from there would be "Are they 'intelligient'?" and "If they are, does their technology map to ours in a way that would cause us to even notice each other?". Even if we don't see any "intelligient" radio waves out there, that doesn't mean that they just aren't using a different technology that we haven't discovered yet. |
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