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| Personal background |
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In my 40(plus) years I have become a Musician, a Philosopher, a Banker, a Teacher, a Letter Carrier, an Information Technologist and now an Information Security Specialist. Throughout that time I have had success and failures at any number of relationships at every level of involvement from the most fleetingly superfical to the intensly intimate. All of these have made me substantially who I am today and, I believe, enriched me far beyond my ability to reciprocate.
As my only way of respecting all those who have contributed to my being me, I continue to strive to limit my failures and increase my successes as my interactions with others continue. I believe that only in reaching out beyond ourselves can we really find our place. We can do this with our next door neighbor as well as with our neighbors in the next solar system.
Being Human is a continual relationship with Others. SETI@Home is a beautiful expression of what makes us who we are - attempting to interact with Others beyond our world. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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There is no reason to think that ET is NOT out there somewhere. Whether that life is close enough to be contacted in any less than a geological timeframe is problematic. The true project is the trying ... and that is what all of us who participate in the SETI@Home project are doing. We are contributing to the trying.
What is the downside of looking - are we putting ourselves at risk? Frankly, the SciFi portrayal of entire races of malevalent space-faring evil strikes me as more of a marketing ploy than a considered, realistic view of what a species would have evolved into socially in order to make the leap to the stars.
One look at where and how we as a global community still need to develop makes me believe that only through a truly worldwide effort can we grasp the stars. That effort will have to include a sincere Humanism that will be taken with us into the rest of the galaxy. We have a long way to go before that ability within us becomes reality.
I run SETI@Home as a way to participate in one of the first steps toward this worldwide effort. Also, I am a geek at heart and competitive to the point of obsession at times. I'll never get to where so many are but I feel a sense of pride in having contributed more units than over 99.337% of those participating. Beyond that I can only laugh at my obsession with completing units at a greater and greater rate.
Throughout the competitivness is a sense of joining WITH people from all across the globe in this mission. I feel a sense of pride in all those others who contribute and enjoy knowing I am in this with them.
Stoneburner \\\\//
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