| Personal background |
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| I have been interested in astronomy and space exploration since my jr high days. This has ultimately led me to SETI@home. I am a tech junkie that "works" in the struggling IT field. My main interests are Computers/Networking, Astronomy, Star Trek, Chess, and Business/Investing. It is my hope that someday soon my interests will lead me to self employment so I may devote more time to my interests. Have a great day and thank you for reading this. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Heck yeah, I whole heartedly believe thast there are thousands and thousands of other planets teeming with intelligent life on them. I think SETI@home is the key to our discovering those inhabited planets. I am not sure how long it will take, maybe one civilization that recently discovered radio transmission technology is 1000 light years away and we will have to wait 1000 years to pick up their transmissions, or one civilization has been doing it for 100 years and is only 120 light years away. Either way we have to be listening to find them. I believe that there will be a lot of benefits to this discovery and communication with those other civilizations, i.e medical, technological, cultural. They might even help us decipher information concerning our own past and help us overcome our cultural differences. I perceive one big problem with contacting an off world civilization and getting new technology and information. That problem is our own internal differences, I beleive that the different countries would try to use this information for their own gain. I think that our world needs 250-1000 years to become a unified civilization naturally, as unification brought about by force is inherently inferior as our own history has shown. I believe that SETI@home is the best thing for the masses to do to help us evolve. I run it on 7 PCs ranging from Pentiums to Pentium 3s. I definitely think we should be transmitting a beacon, as I think there are other planets with SETI like projects going on. I think the SETI@home project is doing an excellent job. My only suggestion is that SETI@home should become more social, local meetings, sponsorships and the like. |
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