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| Personal background |
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| I am from Sacramento, California and I am trained as a chemist. The stars have always intrigued me and, as a child growing up during the space race, I wanted to someday travel to the stars myself. When the seti@home project presented itself to me, I realized that I could vicariously explore them from my computer desktop. I originally ran the program on a AMD 500 MHz processor which I eventually overclocked. Currently, I am running it on a Pentium-3 1.13 GHz processor. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I firmly believe that if we were the only intelligent beings in the universe, it would be a step backward but an opportunity for the human race. It might present us with the impetus to ponder the fragility of life. We, as a people, might respect each other more and hopefully a better world would result.
The reason that I joined seti@home was to hopefully find the answer to the age-old question: Is anyone out there? My opinion is: I hope so!
If sending a beacon is so promising, then sending it to other known extra-solar systems would be logically and statistically a good bet.
I hope the project continues to run and continues to keep its users informed. Furthermore, I hope it can expand to the extent envisioned by the most hopeful of us all.
Post Script: (4/5/2002) After a casual observation of data being crunched on my machines for the past year, I believe it is a safe bet that my anecdotal observations show some sinusoidal and other types of cuvature in the overall data streams presented. Though none of the classical signatures of an ET have been observed,it would be foolish not to further investigate the nature of these seeming anomalies using more sophisticated means. |
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