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Hiya, I'm Ty. I've grown up around the world, and in many regards am still growing. I live in Los Angeles, CA; not really, but I close enough to call it home. :) I'm 36 ging on 25, yeah I know that says a lot about me. I'm in the computer Tech-support field currently, customer service at it's finest. Hobbies... I would say that running a Linux server at home is a hobby, but because some idiots can't leave well enough alone, it has become a daily task; which means banning wannabe hackers, IPs, spammers, and ensuring the websites, mail, etc all get done in a timely fashion.
Another hobby of mine is to prove that we aren't alone. We can't be. I mean, really, anyone catch the movie, "Contact"? Did you listen to the part when Jodie Foster was talking to her "father"? Toward the end, when he said, "The universe is a really big place, it sure seems like a aweful waste of space to only have one inhabited planet with life on it.", or something along those lines. Anyway... That struck a note deep inside me. Does that mean I believe in some alien "Star Fleet or Galactic Imperial Senate", yes and no. Yes, but a star fleet that doesn't consist of warships, rather of traders and explorers, and a senate that decided long ago, our world isn't ready to join the rest of our neightbors, because the McRib won't stay away. :)
Seriously though... How many stars are in the skies? Trillions upon trillions, and we've found 140 planets? Come on... let's have a little hope here.
We have no idea how our universe looks from the outside, if there is an outside to look in from. So how can we as humans, say, "We are alone"? To put it in another perspective, think about these:
Recorded history started for us about 25,000 years ago, most of it has been lost in time and constant warfare.
Every 250 Shuttle missions, one of them blows up, or has some other fatal flaw in their design.
The human race, hasn't made it past the moon.
We're still addicted to gasoline.
The second most tainted organization on Earth stems from Italy, and it's not the mafia.
Even today, miracles are written off as freak events, or explained by some obscure "scientific discovery", that no one has ever heard of, yet we accept them.
We, the members, supports and believers in SETI are all labeled, "Heretics", because we aspire to be more than we are now.
No I'm not ranting, these are simple truths. Look them up for yourselves.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do I run SETI@home...?
I would love to watch science and history as we know them, be turned inside out, when we finally discover, "we are not alone".
I love the project as a whole, I'm glad to take part, however small, in these historic events.
Suggestions... I have a few, But I'd have to send them in a seperate e-mail. :) |
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