| Personal background |
|---|
| I'm a retired technical writer with 25 years of aerospace research writing. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
I spend 5-6 hours a day on my computer. The damn thing cost enough that I'd like to have it earn its keep when I'm NOT on it.
My views? Well, in human terms the universe is effectively infinite. Even this galaxy, in terms of mass and numbers of bodies, is beyond my ability to grasp. My belief is that somewhere in that unimaginable cosmos, other life exists. It's too much to ask that we be unique: THAT, to me, is unbelievable. But in the vastness of the cosmos the chances of detecting evidence of life sufficiently advanced to make its presence known is, if not infinitesimal, at least vanishingly small. (After all, it may turn out that intelligence is simply an evolutionary dead end that's only been explored once. Wolves and squid and sequoias are magnificent forms of life...but they would be invisible to SETI.) However, if one more computer can even marginally increase the chance of detecting that evidence ... well, it's certainly a good thing for MY computer to be doing 18 hours a day! |
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
| Account data |
View |
| Team |
None |
|
