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| Personal background |
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I'm a 33-year-old married businessman in Toronto, Canada. Wow, it's really scary when you sum it up like that, isn't it?
The Basics: Born and raised in Montreal and Cranbrook, British Columbia, where the stars shine very brightly and clearly at night. Went to Capilano College in Vancouver and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Have a BA and an MBA from the latter.
My interests include ancient Greek and Roman history (in fact, I have a 20-year project to read the history of the entire world), philosophy, psychology, science, and business. Personal computing is also a passion -- I've built several of my own computers over the years, and have a 35-gigabyte collection of digital music, audio books, lectures, and radio programs.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SET@Home is a great example of "viral marketing" -- I got the application in the mail from a fellow geek, and sent it on to several more fellow travelers. I chewed through a couple of data units on my notebook, but found the application paged the hard drive too much and so I uninstalled it. For no particular reason I sought out the application again last week -- I now have a home office and a PC that I assembled myself, and have CPU cycles and memory to spare now. The application is constantly running in the background now.
What I like about the SETI@Home concept is the opportunity to participate in something important and of historic value. Everyone fantasizes about being the one to first detect a signal ("You've got mail... from Alpha Centauri!"), but for me it's just enough to be helping out by letting SETI know which signals weren't significant. Also, SETI is probably not nearly so well funded as, say, the next generation of invisible bomber, so I like the idea that SETI@Home stretches their dollar farther.
Given the size of the universe, there is certainly intelligent life out there. Even the most pessimistic probability calculations are overwhelmed when the size of the universe is factored in. Although I'm an enthusiastic reader of good science fiction, I fear that the distances are too vast to for us to physically encounter life, but it would be of great comfort to me if we heard a one-way message from someone else, saying in effect, "We're here, we're like you."
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