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| Personal background |
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I am 49, from Rockville, Maryland, born and raised in the Washington, DC metro area. My profession is network engineering, and I run my own consulting business
serving the DC metro region. I'm a single father of a great 14 year old son, my pride and joy.
I've been fascinated with outer space since I was a child. I know without a doubt that there is life beyond our solar system. I would guess that there are millions of other intelligent life forms in this universe, and I'm proud to be able to make any contribution toward SETI's goals.
I enjoy conversing with others, particularly those interested in computers and/or SETI. My email address is bill@billreed.net. Drop me a line!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well obviously I must believe that intelligent life exists somewhere beyond our
little rock or I would be wasting my time running SETI on every computer I can
access. As to when it may be discovered, I really have no idea. It could be tomorrow or it might never happen. Unfortunately, due to our limited access
to space and the incredibly vast distances involved, it is fairly unlikely, in
my opinion, that we will discover anything soon. I think it's somewhat more
likely that someone else may discover us first, if they haven't already done so.
The pros and cons involved are fairly obvious if we do meet another species.
They could be friendly and we could gain immense knowledge from this encounter,
assuming we established communication and could understand each other. And then there's always the possibility they could be hostile and just "wipe us out".
I think that scenario is fairly remote though as I believe that any species
with the advanced intelligence it would take to travel to our planet would be
far more likely to be of a benovelent nature.
I don't know about sending a beacon for someone to find. Our technology, at least what I know about it, would be to send an RF signal. While these may travel forever, I think that by the time a RF signal reached the distance it
would probably need to travel, it would be too distorted to be of much use.
I run SETI because I belive there are intelligent species in our galaxy. That by establishing a positive relationship with them we could benefit in ways we
may not be able to imagine right now. I think SETI is a fantastic idea, perhaps
a little naive, but none the less an admirable project that I'm happy to be
associated with and hopeful that it's goals will come true one day soon. |
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