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| Personal background |
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I'm a 31 year old accountant living in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I spend most of my day in a credit union looking after the financials and dealing with the odd requests that a credit union generates. It's been fun watching technology impact upon my work, we've gone (like many workplaces in the last decade) from two PCs to eight with a LAN. And with an ISP in the next office, we have the ability to enjoy a great internet connection, which got me on to the SETI project.
Last night I installed SETI on three co-workers PCs, two of them noticed this morning but agreed to leave it there once I had explained what it did. I am beginning to get a little worried over my constant checks to the SETI oage to see my ranking (trying to get in the top million when I wrote this - Aug 02)
I live in Brissie's first high-rise residential building, a quaking hulk of concrete called Torbreck which is reassuringly lo-tech in the age of gated communities and trying to remember 40 passwords. Ultimately I would like to construct and live in my own adobe brick house, maybe after a stint working for MSF in Africa (if I ever get my act together enough).
Anyone out there know any good adobe websites. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that there is a moderate possiblity that out of the infinite possible planets/moons, at some stage in the life of the universe, then yes, life has probably occurred.
Though the odds of a)it evolving to our technological level within a couple of hundred years of us, and
b)them following the same technological paths - i.e. radiowaves and broadcast - as us
seem a bit slim. So maybe there's life out there, but it may have come and gone a million years ago, or maybe they never saw the need to use radiowaves, following some version of existence that is beyond our comprehensions (in my mind I see some sedentary world with aliens communicating by putting their extensors into pools of connected mud).
But hey, it doesn't hurt to look.
I think SETI was a great idea - i look at other member's profiles, not everyone thinks there is life out there, but many people just get into the competitive aspect of processing as many WU's as possible. I know it gets me all keen every now and then.
Suggestions on the project - I have the seti-log add-ons, but a function that can actually "play" any interesting sounds it finds may be useful as the human ear may pick up something that maths thinks is not so interesting. |
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