|
| Personal background |
|---|
Network Engineer/Systems Administrator/Fire Breather/Jack of All Trades...
born - September 17th, 1976
home - originally from Cincinatti, OH, USA but now living in Maryland, USA
hobbies - computers (duh), trying to get a little web hosting project off the ground (netsenseinc.com), video games (pc or console), music, fire-breathing, volleyball, cars, motorcycles, and learning (the most important and most favorite of my hobbies)
here's a list of my computers running seti@home in some form or another:
AMD 1700 (1.47 Ghz stock, Overclocked to 2.4 GHz on a 200 MHz FSB) running Windows XP Pro
AMD 2200 running Windows Server 2003
And all of these running FreeBSD 5.1...
- AMD 2500 Barton (home)
- PIII 700 MHz (netsenseinc)
- P4 2.4 GHz (netsenseinc)
- Xeon 2.0 w/ Hyperthreading (netsenseinc)
- Xeon DUAL 3.06 w/ Hyperthreading (netsenseinc) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
as far as extraterrestrial life is concerned, i don't think it's a matter of whether or not it does exist, it's a matter of finding where it exists. i think the SETI project is currently the best hope for finding life on other worlds, but whether or not it will be discovered during my lifetime is pretty unlikely. even if we were to find a signal, it would take years, possibly decades (or longer) to confirm the existence of life somewhere else. that is, of course, unless they show up at our doorstep... =)
in my opinion, there would be many benefits and dangers of finding life outside our cozy little planet earth. humanity seems to be very arrogant when it comes to extraterrestrial life. we assume things like the life forms are going to be anything even closely resembling human (highly highly unlikely...). another dangerous assumption is that merely because "they" have advanced enough to develop means of communicating (or travelling) around the galaxy/universe that they are going to be peaceful. i certainly hope that is true... but just like here on earth, some forms of life are very territorial and/or very hostile. at best, i can hope that we will learn something from life on other worlds that will advance the human race into a new age of learning and exploration.
with regards to the beacon, i strongly support such an idea. right now, if there is anyone out there, they are probably getting a pretty crappy impression of humanity on the whole. while there is alot of good music, and educational/informative shows on television, we'd be kidding ourselves to think that the signal to noise ratio is anything acceptable. SO... we should get together a history of our world, a record of our experiences, something that shows them that we are not a planet of couch potatoes.
i run SETI@home for several reasons, mostly because i want to help out and contribute, but also because it's a good use of spare CPU cycles and an excellent stress test for computers.
|
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
| Account data |
View |
| Team |
None |
|
