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| Personal background |
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| Hi. My name is Paul and I’m so old that dirt looks up to me in awe, marveling that anything could live so long. I am a displaced Californian now living in Idaho and am near finishing my career as a wildlife biologist with the Feds. For “fun†I play at a game very similar to golf but I spend much more time off the beaten path, communing with nature, and wondering where the hell my ball went. I have been fascinated with space for some time. In junior college I sat in on an astronomy class for giggles. Then while living in Northern California I consumed most of the astronomy section of the Shasta County library and built a small Newtonian telescope. Light pollution in that area was so bad I ultimately stopped using the telescope in frustration but have continued with naked eye and binoculars. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| While I don’t doubt for a moment that the universe is filled with life, when one considers the infinitesimally brief period that humans have had the capability of communication in the electromagnetic spectrum it seems at best unlikely that we will contact a species of similar intelligence in the local area of our galaxy. Still, the probability is greater than zero and this makes it a perfect project for SETI@HOME. With SETI@HOME we can continue to search nearby for intelligent life while not obligating national and international funds that would probably be better spent actually establishing a human presence in space (beyond earth). It seems clear to me that our chances of learning about other life forms can only happen when we develop the ability to efficiently move around and live in space, and that can’t happen until we start doing it. Additionally, there must be vast amounts of resources in our solar system that could be used to benefit mankind and promote our efforts to reach the stars. It is a continuing disappointment to me that we have failed to utilize our moon as a perfect and close location to learn how to establish a space colony and to use the moon as a stepping stone to the rest of the solar system and beyond. |
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