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| Personal background |
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Buffy Sez: "WHAT?!! This car is older than I am? ... And Bob is TWICE as old? Well, I believe that."
When I'm not giving Buffy a ride I'm a Systems Administrator. I've got a Bachelor's and Master's in History and have been working w/ computers since 1980. I've worked as a programmer, a tester and an analyst. Mainframes, micros and networks. I still have trouble believing that they actually pay me to work on computers when I would gladly pay them for the privelege. Hope my boss doesn't read this...
I've got a number of old systems cranking out seti units and a few new ones. Mostly NT systems w/ a few 95, 98, ME and Unix Variants. (There is no such thing as *Unix*). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. ET Life? Probably. Bacteria are alive. Intelligent Life - who knows? We live in a relatively narrow temprature band where H2O exists as liquid, solid and gas. Life here (as we know it) is based on that. Still, there sure are a lotta stars out there. Will we find it? Who knows? Should we try? Of course. The benefits and dangers are obvious. Knowledge and resources vs. disease and destruction. Look at the encounters on earth between less technologically advanced peoples and those w/ higher levels. Low tech cultures fair badly. All the better to be as prepared as possible.
2. Send a beacon? No. See above. But then we're already doing that. "I Love Lucy", "The Shadow" and other signals have been traveling outward at light speed for about 100 years. Best to listen and see what we could learn. What we really need is an antenna array far away from the signal pollution surrounding this planet. But you use what you have.
3. SETI is a first effort. It may not amount to much but you have to start some where. And - "Who Knows" - we might find something. If we did, then we'd be able to get the funding to really do a good job of it.
SETI is also a cool computer project. I'm pleased to be part of it. And, it makes me feel good to see all these old computers I've got doing something useful. :-) |
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