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| Personal background |
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| I'm from Colorado Springs, home of NORAD and Space Command. I'm married with two kids, and work as the Director of Software Development for Payfone, a small startup company in Denver. I've always been fascinated with space, and especially with any life we might find "out there". |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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     I've always felt that it was the height of human arrogance to presume that we are the only life in the Universe. The Universe is one awfully big place. That said, we tend to live in a very small space, namely the one between our ears. The idea that we may not only have to deal with our neighbor not getting their dog to stop barking at night, but that we may also have to deal with some interstellar neighbor that might have completely, well, alien ideas is too much for most people to handle.
     Someday we are going to find life out in the surrounding stars, maybe even on planets or planetoids in our own solar system. Sure, anything in our system is most likely going to be microbial in nature, but even the Milky Way is too big for us to be the lone species that does more than eat, drink, and... make more little creatures. Do I think that the first intelligent species we're going to find will be Vulcans with impeccable logic come to help us out of all our problems? Probably not. Let's face the fact that 90% of their culture would be so foreign to anything we know or understand that it probably wouldn't help us at all. A romance novel written by an eight-tentacled alien is not going to be very appealing to us as humans.
     That said, it would still be the most important moment in the history of mankind. The revelation that we are not alone in the cosmos is so profound as to shake the foundations of every nation around the world.
     And I don't think that the discovery of ET life is that far off. As our technology advances, we can use it to listen ever more closely to the whispers hiding in the white noise from space. And when that whisper comes...
     On that day we have to hope that the world will forget its petty bickering as the limitless horizon of other worlds opens before us. And if we can do that, we will be worth the label of Intelligent Life ourselves. |
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