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| Personal background |
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| The University of Wisconsin - Platteville is my current residence, but my house is in East Troy, Wisconsin. I'm a sophomore in mechanical engineering. During the summers, I work in Information Systems at Buell Motorcycle Company (a Harley-Davidson subsidiary). As a student at East Troy High School, I participated in concert, symphonic, marching, and pep bands, performed stage and sound management and other behind the scenes jobs for four theatrical performances, assisted in planning, design, and construction of Homecoming festivities and the Junior Prom. I was a member of the technology, science and math club. I have always been interested in designing and building things to make my life easier or more fun. My current project that I work on when I visit home is a hovercraft, Junkyard Wars style. I also enjoy biking, sailing occaisonally, canoeing, and rock climbing at Devil's Lake state park. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| The universe is a quite expansive realm to study. Even the local Orion Arm is a larger place than I'll probably ever be able to see or study in my day. With these distances, it is unlikely that signs of life will ever just fall into our lap. I'm not bashing the project though. If we could find life, it would be an amazing feat and a discovery of many lifetimes. It would clarify our views of ourselves and our home in the universe. I believe that any effort to discover intelligent life is worth value and should at least be given a try. I think the dangers of this endeavour are far too insignificant to avoid such projects. I find it hard to believe that any race that possesses the technology and resources to travel the galaxy would still be fighting the old battles of common greed and dominance that is experienced in the world today. I think that is such a race would visit us, they would be interested in exploration as a singular goal. They would not be interested in conquering a another planet or raping the planet for resources. Although SETI has a low chance of finding life, I think that any effort to help it out is a good idea, to a certain extent. There are more problems in our world that need to be solved, so until then a project like SETI will always take a back burner to more important problems. I feel that's the way it should be; the discovery of life outside our planet is important, but not as important as solving world hunger, disease, and war. But until then, I'll devote a few dispensable resources of mine to a worthy and fascinating search. |
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