| Personal background |
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Age : 31
Occupation: Computer/Network Engineer
Hobbies : Strategy Table Top Games, Role-Playing, Computer Gaming, Japanese Animation, RC Cars
Location : DFW, Texas |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1.Does Exterrestrial Life Exist? Absolutely! Think about it, what are the odds that we are alone with limitless space and planets?
When will we discover that life? Hopefully within my lifetime!
How will we discover that life? Most likely by picking up traces of their technology or THEM picking up traces of OUR technology.
[b]What are the benefits or dangers? Well that will greatly depend on communication with the race that we contact or contacts us. Only in finding a means of communication will we be able to benefit from contact.
I started running Seti mainly because I have a fiercely competitive spirit and when I saw my friend running it, I wanted to process more packets than him. However, after sitting down and thinking about how this type of computer process sharing can benefit science as a whole, not just SETI, I find myself wondering how long it will be before we start seeing medical research programs reaching out to the idle computers of the world looking for spare processes that might lead to a cure for Diabeties, Cancer, AIDS. Or how about a commercial companies paying people for their spare CPU cycles? Think about how fast the advancement of humanity can benefit if every single computer in the world were using every single CPU cycle to do something beneficial instead of just eating up another Watt of power just sitting there doing nothing.
My only question to people that ask me why do I run seti is, "Why do you NOT run Seti?"
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