Profile: tom

Personal background
I'm from Sydney, Australia. The place with the harbour bridge that gets featured around the world on "Look at the pretty fireworks" shows every time we run out of days and have to invent some more or be doomed in some as yet undisclosed hideous fashion. And we had the Olympics for awhile, but didn't think much of them so gave them back to Greece. Poor bastards. I'm 26, but am unlikely to ever update this and so am probably older than that now. My occupation is best described as beach bum, but the sort of beach bum who really doesn't like the beach at all, and in fact kicks sand in the face of the beach whilst screaming "Aardvarks!!". In pursuing this career, I play guitar, write bad love poetry, code meaningless Perl scripts, and write prize winning novels under another name. I have a lucrative hobby which involves asking people which brand of toothpaste they believe will get their teeth so white that they have to smile. I am also a starving actor. I have 3 cats, Peter, Paul, and Mary. They are learning folk singing in order to support me in my old age. They rock.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I expect extraterrestrial life exists. Be a bit of a silly universe if Earth had managed to bogart life. Take a pizza, for example. Let life be an olive. Now, you must agree that it would be a pretty silly pizza that only had one olive on it. Not worthy of being called a pizza at all. Unless it was one olive that was finely sliced and distributed evenly across the surface of the pizza. In such a way, a universe without an evenly sliced distribution of life would be a very silly universe and would surely have been eaten by a stella echidna in the early seconds of its explodingness as a matter of quality control.

Humans will discover the aliens when they arrive and start shooting our kittens! With lasers!!!

The danger of this is that many noble kittens will be sacrificed in this first contact. All kittens must be briefed now, and given lots of really nice food and cuddles. Just in case. Cuddle a kitten today, kill an alien tomorrow.

Sure humans should transmit a beacon. What's the point of being alive if you don't let everybody else know, loudly. Such a beacon should include information regarding how best to disable all defences we have against hostile alien attacks. This is a gesture of peace. Look at us, here's all the tactics we would use against you. Aren't we a bunch of wimps. What should not be included is any information regarding the common cold, as this is our best defence against hostile aliens as far as I know.

I run SETI@home because it's fun. I think it's the most fun distributed project out there. I would suggest that the project include a nice picture of a kitten in it's logo, as kittens will suffer most when the aliens attack.
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