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| Personal background |
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| I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, am 41 years old and work in the Information Technology industry as a systems administrator. My wife and I have recently gotten into amateur star gazing and discovered SETI while researching that online. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think, with the universe as big as it is, that we can't be the only life form out there. For us to discover another intelligent life form they will have to be at least as advanced as us and be searching the universe also. Even though they are advanced and searching they may be so far away from us that we never discover each other.
I really don't know when or how we will discover ET life or be discovered by them. The benefits would be all the knowledge we would gain. There is unlimited potential in that. The risks would be them being hostile or being exposed to a virus, bacteria or other biological agent that is detrimental to us.
I think we should transmit some type of beacon letting the universe know we are here. I think the information should be mathematical and music. Those two things may be the only thing an ET would recognize as coming from another intelligent life form. Other than that I don't really think it would matter as long as we think it could not be construed as hostile.
I run SETI at home to help with the project because I like being a part of something this big. If an important discovery was to be made I would be able to say I was a part of that in a small way. I enjoy daydreaming about the possibilities.
I think the project is pure genius and that you should keep doing what you're doing. |
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