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| Personal background |
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I am a software developer, a Canadian and a Vancouver Canucks fan. Go Canucks Go!
Started out with Athlon 1800 on almost 24/7 and occasionally Pentium 3 700. Both running the GUI version and cranked out a miserable average of 19 work units (WUs) per week.
Recently added a Pentium 4 1500 and Celeron 400 upping the count to only about 22 WUs/week. All running on Windows 2000 (pro and adv svr) OS.
Last week reconfigured all of them to run as NT service using CL version and whooooosh there they go. Estimated WUs/week improved to around 70 to 80 range.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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My thoughts are somewhat a sombre one, thanks in part to the on-going ravagings around the world and most of us blindly supporting them. The only light, though a small one, is SETI and other space exploration projects.
With billions of stars in a galaxy and countless number of galaxies in an infinite space, what are the odds that there are no other warm blue ocean planets like ours out there.
I hope we would all support many scientific projects like SETI because they provide us with constructive knowledge to truly understand how everything revolves around us. Without these knowledge, we would be like the folks 2000 years ago who saw earth as the center of the universe, the sky being some plastic dome covering the earth and the unlimited abundance of everything magically provided for us humans to consume at will and without consequences.
A very interesting article by Dr. Alan Hale (Hale-Bopp comet)
http://www.afn.org/~iguana/archives/1997_04/19970410.html
Lack of true scientific knowledge breeds ignorance. Ignorance and materialism produce destructive results. Look around and you'll see us brutally conquer others to gain control of their resources and call the actions peaceful and democratic.
Being as we are, do the aliens really want us to visit them? I hope we could resolve these matters because if we couldn't it is very likely our alien counterparts may have the same problems too. If so, do we really want them to visit us?
Beside, we not only face the questions of whether there are worlds like ours abroad, our ignorance may very well render our own un-habitable if we continue on this destructive path.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
-Â a Haida Indian Saying
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