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| Personal background |
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| Professional geek and technical trainer. Native of St. Louis, MO, recently relocated to the Memphis, TN area. Am also deputy listowner of the SKEPTIC listserver, where we recently had about a monthlong flamewar on whether SETI was science or pseudoscience. The debate convinced me it was science, and sparked my interest in helping out. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think extraterrestrial life exists? Absolutely. Do I think extraterrestrial *intelligence* exists? There I'm not so sure. In any event, if ETI *does* exist, I have sincere doubts that we'll ever meet face to face. Space is pretty damn big, folks, and even lightspeed is slow for traversing these distances.
Why do I run SETI@home? In part, to spite the members of the SKEPTIC listserve who think it's a pseudoscientific waste of time. ;-) In much larger part, because I am interested in the concept of massively distributed computing, such as the SETI@home project, and because, while I have no doubt that SETI will be unsuccessful, perhaps the data analysis being done by the project will advance the field of astronomy through the serendipitous discovery of something non-ETI that we weren't looking for. |
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