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| Personal background |
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| I'm 16 years old and on August 21, 2003, I will be moving into my college dorm room. I am a student of the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science where I will go to school for two years, completing the last two years of high school and the first two years of college simultaneously. I enjoy doing anything on my computer: games (Counter-Strike, Dungeon Siege), programming (Visual Basic .NET, C ), and watching the SETI@home client crank away. In college I want to study advanced mathematics and its relationship with chemistry. I also hope to study the stars as a hobby later in life; I know there is something out there, the universe is beyond words. That moves us onto the next section. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that extraterrestrial life exists and that we (the public) are close to its discovery (close meaning sometime in the next 20 years) for many reasons. I said 'the public' because I also believe that the government, and some of its branches, know _a lot more_ than they let us (the public) know, and for good reason. Some of you right now are reading this and saying, 'This kid has no idea what he's talking about, the government wouldn't hold information from us, our country wasn't build on these kinds of things...' You may be right, but when the government has information that could be dangerous to the integrity of society, I believe that the threat of upset or chaos is reason enough to hold that information. I think that the government (again using the term loosely) realizes that that if this information was to get out, no matter what kind of information it was, it would stir up some kind of unnecessary trouble somewhere in the country. I say that 'the public' are also close to finding out if extraterrestrial life exists because personal technology today is astounding; either the government won't be able to hold the information in, or we will find out on our own.
On to the second question: no, I don't believe that it is a good idea to send out a beacon for something out there to respond to because you are putting the whole human race at *potential* risk because of a few humans interest in the unknown. Notice I said 'potential,' I don't necessarily believe that all extraterrestrial life will be violent, or perhaps have no regard for human life, but there is always that possibility.
I love SETI@home because it puts my computer to good use, I'm contributing to a greater cause, and I like the cool colors. I think that this project is an excellent way for people like me to contribute to an area that we are interested in. |
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