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| Personal background |
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Born in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Grew up in Alief in Houston, Texas.
Then moved to Sugar Land, Texas.
Now live with my wife near Rice University in Houston.
I'm 28 (today is 5/15/02)
I'm the LAN Assistant for PULSE EFT Association in downtown Houston.
I like playing (sometimes more of an attempt) guitar (classical/steel acoustic/electric).
I like playing piano (again, sometimes there's more of an attempt going on here).
Since I work with computers, I tend to like to screw around with them as well.
I like good beer.
Hussong's tequila, over ice, with a splash of Grand Marnier, shaken, is kinda nice.
I like a good honest game of darts down at the local tavern.
I like the scent of Nag Champa...a lot.
And I like to drive with the windows down in cold weather.
I suppose there are all kinds of things I like and like to do. My space is dwindling here, so I shall have to leave it at that. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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A to Q1: To think that we are the only intelligent (or living for that matter) organisms in the universe is quite egotistical and naive.
True, there are forces at work here that provide an environment suitable for us to live...but even as I say that I think to myself: We're "alive" - of course there are "forces at work" facillitating our existance - what else can we say. But if we were comprised of other "elements" we may not be able to survive here...just as an human child would most likely not live long unvaccinated.
>We will discover ETI either by being hit in the head with it, or by means such as those being researched at Berkeley.
>The benefits...hmmmm...I don't really know...I suppose that depends on what our intensions as a race are. Are we looking for newer technologies that will allow us to live longer/have better sex/engineer faster cars. Are we explorers and simply want to see what's out there (provided "they" could show us). What are our intensions?
>The dangers might be: Alien "plague" (unintensionally spread, I hope), differences in opinon, overpopulation on our planet (if they're looking for what we're looking for: more elbow room (even though you and I know there is more than enough here)), the introduction of weapons of mass destruction (our's and their's) due to those previously mentioned differences in opinion, etcetera. You know, stuff we've already been dealing with amongst our own race, just reconfigured so as to be understood by another one.
A to Q2: We should transmit information such as who we are, what we're comprised of, how long we think we've been here, our evolutionary process, who does what, where and why they do it, and in what context, Our "accomplishments" - our "failures" - our "attempts," what we can do with what we have, our travels and the means by which we got there (and back), where we think we came from, and where we think we are going. A to Q3: Because SETI@home is just too darn cool. |
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