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| Personal background |
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I am a 3rd generation US Navy Sailor, now retired from that career, and our son has taken that tradition to the 4th generation. These days I am a Relocation Services Manager for the Navy, and also the director of a Retired Activities Office, in Yokosuka, Japan. Though I grew up in New York (Long Island) and have lived and worked at numerous locations around the world, we have made our home here in Japan since 1982.
I've always been fascinated by space and time, and have surrounded myself with a variety of media (both non-fiction and fiction) on those subjects. I enjoy spending time in the mountains of Japan. The quiet and dark nights away from the city allow me to watch the spectacles of the universal sky theater unfold before me. A useful website to help us enjoy some of the manmade sights in the night sky is at http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/
I also enjoy net surfing, reading, and compiling my family history. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It is almost unimaginable to me that we are the only world in the universe with cognitive intelligent life. But I can't even begin to guess when we might encounter another such form of life, from another world, on a communicable level. Then again, who is to say we have not been visited before, or are even now being visited, watched, and perhaps evaluated.
Our civilization has been transmitting "beacons" of many types since the dawn of the age of broadcasting, and the advent of our own space explorations. Weak as some of them may be, they tell the story of our collective lives, good and not-so-good, for many decades past. I hope any ETI that picks up these fleeting signals has the sense to put them into a rational persepctive of fiction and non-fiction. These unintended beacons were our first knocks on the doors of whomever might be our ET neighbors. To transmit a singular beacon for the purpose of saying "hello" would be like announcing the starting lineup at the 7th inning stretch. But I guess it wouldn't hurt.
I don't remember how I found out about SETI@home; maybe from a coworker. My first setup was on a slow old workhorse with little RAM. I was lucky to process one unit in 28 hours of PC time. With a fast new machine now online, with RAM to burn, I can usually squeeze out 3-4 units per day. I hope that the cooperative efforts of all our number crunching will one day reveal a beacon, intended or otherwise, from one of our ET neighbors. |
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