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| Personal background |
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I'm a 30something male born and raised in Southern California, and I hate it. The weather is great, but the cost of living and political environment is aweful. For a born resident I feel awefully out of place here, though the economic realities of moving seem to keep me in a constant rut.
I know some of you in colder or wetter states are feeling a little contempt right now that someone can live here and be unhappy but I have to say that I don't see the value in it being warm and sunny outside if I'm stuck inside day after day, or if I can't ever seem to make enough to go out and enjoy the weather.
As for hobbies, I'm pretty easily entertained. I had a scooter I really enjoyed, until CA decided the two stroke engine was too pollutant so now I can't ride it. I fish when I can, and occasionally get to the beach. Mainly, I tinker with computers. I write some VB, build and rebuild linux pc's, and keep waiting for that next really cool MMORP or RTS game. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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With respect to the existance of ET. I'm of a mind that they probably exist. But even if we knew exactly where they were, none of us could survive long enough to exchange in even a single communication. The distances are so great that by the time they replied to whatever question we asked, we'd all be dead. So what's really the point?
Other than just to know, or understand the universe in a larger context and get over our own self importance...
Should we transmit a beacon? It reminds me of Jared Diamonds book The Third Chimpanzee from the chapter Alone in a Crowded Universe. An excerpt:
...human explorers who discovered technically less advanced humans also regularly responded by shooting them, decimating their populations with new diseases, and destroying or taking over their habitats. Any advanced extraterrestrials who discovered us would surely treat us in the same way. Think again of those astronomers who beamed radio signals into Space from Arecibo, describing Earth's location and its inhabitants. In its suicidal folly that act rivaled the folly of the last Inca emperor...
Uh, yeah! Thanks Arecibo. I'll remember that when ET's preparing me in a soup.
And, I suppose, I run SETI at home because I like the pretty pictures, I'm curious about how many work units I can do in a certain period of time and it allows me to cross reference all my computers to see which run it better than the other and how well the linux clients work compared to MS clients. |
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