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| Personal background |
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California native
Age: Past the 1/2 century mark
Hobby: Guitar player, Amateur astronomer
Pink Floyd fan
Quote: (from Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason - Learning to Fly)
"can't keep my eyes from the circling skies, tongue tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit, I" |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
3. Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
1. It would be impossible for me to believe that the existence of extraterrestrial life is anything but an absolute certainty. The universe is just too vast for the conditions to have only happened in this one spot. My hopes, however, for us ever finding real evidence of it are next to nil. Again, the universe just seems too vast for the chance of a "visit" or "phone call" from beyond our system. But I will (and hope that all) continue to keep an open mind, eye and ear, as the discovery of such evidence would be the greatest discovery since we began to walk upright. It would mean the re-thinking of virtually every foundational philosophy to date.
2. I can't see any harm in tossing a "message in a (cosmic) bottle" out into the "sea of the universe" with whatever information about our species that one may think pertinent, however I might include a warning about how savage and violent we still are. I just don't feel comfortable extending a hand of peace when we've got a nuclear gun in the other.
3. a)I run SETI@home/BOINC because I'm a hopeless romantic and just can't wait till we find that it was my computer that processed the first real evidence of ET calling.
b)SETI Classic was seemingly simpler, more user friendly, and seemed much easier to set up. Given better funding, I think the changeover to BOINC could have been a bit better organized and not such a suprise and eventually alienating some of the not so computer literate users/donors.
c)I suggest that NASA send me on the first manned Mars mission since I already have 1st hand experience on the planet. (Went there several times back in the Sixties) (But this time I can bring my cell phone!) |
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