| Personal background |
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| Colorado native, C.U. grad twice, done some AI, currently doing systems engineering. I read lots of sci-fi and fantasy, build things for the kids, and play too many stupid computer games. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I think it's important to know what's out there. I believe that being good toward others is logical, so an advanced race MIGHT be nice, but it certainly don't expect that. The more we know about other intelligences, the better prepared we can be to either cooperate with them or defend ourselves against them, depending on their nature. As to whether they're out there at all, I think intelligence probably has and will evolve on many, many worlds, but they could all have periods of external communication that are brief enough not to intersect with ours (yet). In other words, if a new civilization starts communicating (in the ways we currently listen for) every N thousand years, and shuts it down after 100 years either because they've gone beyond those methods or have destroyed themselves or decided not to radiate, then you could say a lot of intelligences are/were out there, but times when a SETI project will be successful at detecting them could still be extremely rare. |
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