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I guess I've always wanted to be an alien, but that ain't happened, so... I'm just a French guy (poor ole me!), a rocket scientist by education, who got disspointed by our poor technological level in the field and became one of these too numerous software engineers! Hobbies: my beloved Vanessa (smart, beautiful and amazing girl to give a very short description), and anything from writing, drawing, to computing.
I am what I believe anybody would call a geek, although I probably have a different understanding of my spending my time on a computer, creating programs, 3D animation or images... I guess that need for 'creation' is just too attractive for me to turn it down and live a regular life like: partying and drinking every other night, going to the movies and bumming around... although I think sometimes I wish I could just do that just like many people (probably you reading me right now!)... Life would be so much simpler if I hadn't that drive to think and do something out of these thoughts all the time!
One of my latest interests has been distributed computing, and although I do believe in extra-terrestrial intelligence (cf. next section!), I believe there are other interesting and more important uses for applications like SETI@Home, so my dual proc machine is primarily running United Devices/Oxford University’ THINK task dedicated to finding possible cures to cancer.
(Am I implying you should check it out…? Hmmm well maybe I am!)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think ET life exist?
You want the usual statistical analysis every body who believes would give you? Nah... I'll spare you. Yes, I believe, but most probably I wildly hope so... It would seem to me life would have little interest if we were alone in the universe... kinda like knowing everything sort of "belongs to you already" because there's no competition, nobody to challenge you, talk with. I guess it's the same image you would get a bout a competition or love: there needs to be a challenge for us humans to be interested in something... otherwise, we feel there's no point in even trying...
So there'd be no point in living if the only things we could discover were physical realities and mathematical models to explain them.
Should we transmit a beacon?
Heck... that's a much harder question to answer than I think most of us think at first. Obviously we'd want to make contact... but what if this only brings doom upon us... You can expect some long discussions the day we reach that point. Just like there are all kinds of human beings, there should be all kinds of races up there... let's just hope we'll home in on a pacific one just nice enough to be willing to communicate with us, just advanced enough so we, in our sometimes befuddling human pride, can't even think to try to conquer them!
Why do I run SETI@Home?
I'm not sure, honestly. Because I do believe... we will not find what we're looking for that way. Okay... now that sounds pessimistic! Here's my point: even if statistically there has to be life out there, statistically, it'll be sparse and hence nearly impossible to pinpoint... You know... the traditional thing: you have to be listening on the right spot at the right time. I'd honestly give more credit to a program that would help compute field mathematics and advanced physics to help create the next generation space technologies. In the meantime, I won't miss the chance that maybe... this will work! |
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