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| Personal background |
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My story begins on a cold Christmas Eve in northwestern Ohio, within a decade of Roswell, New Mexico making sensational news.
A small child walks out on a concrete porch, hoping to see Santa streaking across the sky. After a single glimpse of the sparkling, shimmering night, Santa was forgotten. The wonder and awe of that view inspired a lifetime curiosity of science in general and Astronomy specifically.
As I grew, my curiosity was responsible for joining the Boy Scouts, where I strived to earn every possible merit badge dealing with science. Meteorology and Astronomy were my favorites. Around the age of 11, I saw my first "UFO" (which turned out to be a satellite), and gave me reason to consider the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.
After high school, I discovered computers in college. I decided to work for the company that made the computer I learned programming on in school. After a period of study, I moved to Texas, where I went to work for that company to live on the bleeding edge of computer programming. 12 years later I was laid off just before the company was bought out. After a couple years hiatus, I moved to Florida where spent 5 years aiding my parents in the last years of their life. The year 2000 saw my parents' deaths, the death of my best friend, and a cat who owned me for the previous 19 years. It also saw the end of my career in programming, when that company downsized.
In spite of that difficult year, I continue to seek meaningful work (that seems to come and go...), meaning in life, and meaning in a world that seems to sponsor more chaos than it does order. It lends credence to the theory that the universe is, indeed, a holographic one. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Is there life in the cosmos, beyond our planet? In a word, yes. I believe there is intelligent extraterrestrial life and I believe we have the opportunity to discover it. It is the reason I run Seti@Home.
And if an ET should discover us? I wonder how, as a global community, we might appear to ET. What possible reasons would an extraterrestrial civilization have for contacting us? Are we mature enough to use any knowledge they might offer? I believe we may be on the right track by having the curiosity to seek them out! And their contact with us may be contingent upon our ability to accept ourselves, one and all. Without that, how could we accept another species of life?
Whether this happens will depend largely upon our ability as a global community to be viable over a certain period of time. I believe we must develop some Faith over our fears, and learn from each other some trust, and a willingness to be open to ideas beyond our experience, beyond our science; ultimately beyond our world. |
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