| Personal background |
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Located in central Pennsylvania. Age: 44
Occupation: Chief Technology Officer for a small project
management and scheduling firm. Network administrator and lead application
developer and programmer. Principal author of several software packages. Holder of several copyrights.
Formerly: Operations Officer and HazMat coordinator for Emergency Management
Agency. Also research officer and deputy communications officer for county
HazMat team.
Hobbies: Photography, motorcycling, music (creating and performing)
amateur radio (KA3ICZ), and Keplerian data orbit projections. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do you run SETI@home?
I run SETI@home for the science and the statistical compilation. The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence invests an insignificant amount of finite resources
with the possibility to return one of the greatest scientific discoveries in the
history of mankind. The discovery of an extraterrestrial civlilization would prove
that such civilizations do not have to extinguish themselves, and that it is possible
for a technological race to endure their "technological adolesence".
This project also demonstrates the distributed power of PC's and shows what we can do
when we work together. Millions of SETI users, all working together, no national
borders, just team work. Isn't that how everything should work?
Thoughts about ETI
This world should consider more effort in transmitting messages using high powered
radio transmitters, such as the one located at Arecibo. Now that science has mapped
the Human Genome, maybe society should consider transmitting the entire human genetic
code into space. Perhaps some very advanced civilization would intercept such a
transmission and would be able to analyze its contents. Presupposing their biology is
based on some sort of carbon / amino acid structures they might gain significant
knowledge about our species (our biology, chemistry, our very nature).
Humankind may be culture-shocked to discover that we are not alone, but that discovery
will come when the ETI's are ready to "allow us to discover them." The doom-sayers
would have us believe that such a discovery has to lead to contact, and that such
contact will be ultimately destructive or cataclysmic. I think that any intelligence
out there has to be more benevolent than savage, and we could only gain by such an
encounter. |
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