| Personal background |
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| I am a 47 year old telecommunications professional (wireless network switching), a free lance philosopher, and a science educated layman. I have a grip on elementary level calculus, some formal university training in physics, and enough motivation to tackle the more difficult concept books written for the scientifically informed layman, but upper level text books, involving extensive use of differential equations, are still a bit beyond my grasp. One of my hobbies is building and flying model rockets. I was into amateur radio for a few years. Now I spend most of my time reading philosophy and science. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I run SETI at home because I believe in the importance that the discovery of extraterrestrial life can have for humanity, both technologically and philosophically. I support the aims of the SETI project, and I think that it has done the project a lot of good to reach out, as it has over the past five years, by inviting the participation of private computers and networks in the sheer number crunching aspect of the project. I think that SETI ought to pay very close attention to the latest developments in quantum computing and quantum teleportation. I suspect that if these scientific researches pay off and lead to new technologies, new quantum telecommunication technologies may be one of the results. SETI should ask itself, given the direction and pace that theoretical physics is now running at, and the prospects for radical new technologies within the next few decades, is it possible that the radio search methodologies that are now used by SETI are too primitive to detect the intentional broadcasts that might be transmitted by extraterrestrial civilizations interested in contact? |
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