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| Personal background |
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| I'm 47 and I've lived all over the US with the exception of the South. No offense meant, but there's just never been the opportunity. I spent eight years in Hawaii and now I am in the San Diego area. Trained as a scientist, I run a laboratory for a government institution here. I am self-taught in computers and electronics and I am always eager to learn new things. If you're not living and learning, you're dying and ignorant. Or - as my father used to say, "It's better to be rich and healthy than it is to be poor and sick." |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I like to run SETI@home on all my computers because it is one small way in which I can help a truly important project. I believe one day we will find signs of other life in the universe, or they will find us. SETI@home also appeals to my natural scientific curiosity and my desire to do more with less. It is wonderful that so many people can contribute to such a large project, using electrical energy they would have otherwise wasted. In the same vein, BOINC shows that this idea can be extended to other types of analysis, and perhaps this attitude can be transmitted to other areas of science and who knows - maybe farther? It is certainly true that as a species we are going to have to pull together as our resources stretch thin. |
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