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| Personal background |
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I am a Ph.D. biologist who has been crunching WUs since the beginning (with a brief "holiday" during the summer of 2001 while my iMac was in storage).
My home page is at http://homepage.mac.com/huber . Check it out.
I love hiking, fishing, and camping. If you do go to my home page, you will find links to photos of me doing just that. The photo of me in this profile is from a recent extended canoe excursion through a chain of lakes in northern British Columbia. We were lucky that night to find an old cabin in which to lodge. Normally we toughed it out in the rain. However, rain or not, the scenery was amazing and the fishing was phenomenal!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am quite certain that ET life does exist. The bigger question is, does intelligent life (more advanced than are we) still use radio. I actually doubt that they do. In fact, there might be only a short window in the life of an intelligent species where they are "noisy", so to speak.
If this is the case, then we will probably not find ET life with this search UNLESS they are specifically trying to contact us. But, if the latter scenario were the case, they would have found a way to get our attention and there would be no need for an extensive search. The very fact that we need to search so hard means that either ET does not want us to find them or ET does not care if we find them, or ET does not exist. In either of the first two cases it sort of makes you wonder what we should do if we do find them. Do we want to make contact with a society that does not want to hear from us (or which is apathetic about us)? In either case, we could be in trouble.
So, I think that we should look, but if we ever do find, we'd better be pretty sure about ourselves before we send a reply. It will be a pretty amazing day when we do discover a signal from space. But it will also be a pretty scary day. It will change the way that we look at the universe and it could really change humanity for the better, or the worse. I hope that we approach the whole thing with intense caution.
I run S@H because, as a scientist, I see it as a way of contributing to human knowledge. Whether or not we find ET, we will learn from the experience. Perhaps we will learn about computing. Perhaps we will learn new truths about the universe. Either way, we learn.
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