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| Personal background |
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I hope you find this message because you are running or have stopped in to download the SETI@Home application. This is a worthy project. I run SETI on three computers -- my home PC and my work PC and Mac.
I live in northwest Indiana in a small farming community of fewer than 2,000 people. Some of my interests include reading about phenomena, U.S. history, and classic literature. Computers are how I make my living (I am the computer help desk manager at a local university) and I am finally working on a personal website (I'll post it when it's done). My wife, my three dogs, gardening, the Chicago Cubs and Bears, and IU basketball pretty much round out my other interests.
I submitted a collage of my dogs since they are much cuter than I. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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While I have never personally seen or encountered extraterrestrial life, I do believe it must exist. The odds are too long for it not to exist (and as a Cubs fan, I know a thing or two about long odds). Hopefully, we will make contact in my lifetime.
In response to the other questions, I do think we should transmit a beacon on the off chance that intelliegent life will find it. If we believe that we can find the beacons of intelligent life through SETI, then we must believe that intelligent life can find our beacon.
I run SETI@Home because I believe that it is a worthwhile project and so my computer doesn't get bored when I'm at work. As far as the idea of using idle processor time to process the data, I think it is one of the truly brilliant ideas of the last century. |
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