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Born on November 26, 1954; I leave it to you to calculate my current age.
Occupation: Printer
Hobbies: Computers, Camping, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking and having a good time
I live in Chicago, IL and have for my whole life. I've enjoyed a variety of occupations including delivering Pizzas, tending bar, auto mechanic, apprentice machinist, printer, production coordinator, process controller, store clerk, handy man and paper boy.
I attended McKay Public School, Luther South High School, Morraine Valley Jr. College, UIC and Daley College. I've earned an Associate Degree in Computer Science and currently pusuing the same in Business. After that I'll probably pursue Bachelor Degrees in both and a Master in one or the other depending on what I am currently doing.
I am currently running SETI on one computer, a dual Athlon 2800 MP LINUX server running Redhat 9 (two instances of SETI).
Eventually all of the computers on my network will run SETI. These include a Sun Ultra Spaarc 10, a Sun IPX, another dual Athlon 1900 MP LINUX server, a dual P-233 LINUX server, two P4-1.8 Ghz Win 98 machines and a P4-2.8 Ghz Win 98 machine. This means I'll eventually being running 11 instances of SETI concurrently. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think it is quite possible that extraterrestrial life exists, the real question is how advanced is it? Will we even recognize it?
Given our own history it may be very dangerous to initiate contact with an extraterrestrial life form. They may view us as a threat.
Possible benefits are advances in science and math.
I don't believe we should transmit a beacon. We may be inviting something we don't want. Until we are able to actually travel to the stars we are limited to defense only and a poor defense at that. Any extraterrestrial life that can travel to us is obviously more advanced than we are and given that fact it is likely that they could quite easily destroy any defense we could come up with. As it is we are in a "backwater" and it may be best to keep a low profile. This doesn't mean that at some point in our future we shouldn't make contact, just not now.
I run SETI@home because I do believe there is a very good possibility that we are not alone in the universe. If we can find other races, we can study them and if/when the time is right make contact. For now, given our technology I feel that passive study that programs such as SETI@home is doing is the proper course of action.
Carl |
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