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| Personal background |
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| SCUBA divin, Bluegrass pickin', ET huntin' from Atlanta where tha' playas play, and the parties don't stop till 8 in tha' mo-nin'. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Of course ET exists, its an awful waste of space otherwise. Besides, it is mathematically imposible-ish given the # of galaxies/stars. I'd say the radio telescope is the best way to find ET, just listen. I think the material benefits would be scientific, but the social/religious structure would shift somewhat. But, as they always do, things would go on about the same, people will believe what they choose to. People still believe in witches, ghosts and faked moon landings. I'm some will say the contact was faked even with the best evidence.
2. I think we should send a radio beacon. I don't think that it is possible to travel faster than light and travel physically to the many distant planets. The few close ones maybe, but the chances they have life, let alone advanced intelligent life is smallish. Even if "warp drives" existed the energy required would make it prohibitive to travel to Terra and whomp us. So radio contact may let the Yankees know our position, but they can¡¦t get here. For a message to ET, I think we should send ¡V (Prime # pings) ----(ET Contact response frequency/information ¡§We receive you¡¨ ¡V ET ƒº) -----(Prime # pings) -----(repeat).
3. I run SETI@home because I hate to waste my PC power on flying toasters. Also, because distributed computing is an idea I¡¦ve wondered about since my TI-64. ¡§If I bought 2 and wired them together could I run PAC Man?!?¡¨
Suggestion-Change the screensaver colors sometimes, and pretty it up more. I only run it as a idle-screensaver so system resources aren't a issue for me.
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