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| Personal background |
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I was born extremely young. I spent time during childhood in sports and in nature. I loved animals. Just dogs, though. As pets, I think almost all cats are a scourge - evil beings previously left here by the same aliens we are now seeking, so that we can herd them all up and send them back. Obviously, they knew how rapacious homo sapiens would become, and left the damn cats here to punish us in advance.
I've been an amateur astronomer since I can remember. I've done naked-eye, bino, and have had a couple of scopes. Shockingly, I have not discovered anything. I'm fascinated by space, cosmology, radio astronomy, quantum physics, artificial and alien intelligence, vacuum fluctuations, trans-finite Cantorian frameworks and Hilbert spaces, and I also like a good piece of rope; I'm into Northern California, rollerblades, trains, wetware, biocode, music, quantum computing, non-petrol vehicles, clean drinking water, musical instruments I can't afford and a Down Bay Towel to wad and chew on.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life exists. It's an unbelievable exercise in anthropomorphic self-centeredness to think otherwise. The sheer mathematical (im)probablility of our race reaching our present state is enough to convince me. Alien races who are advanced enough to know about our existence are smart enough to keep their distance; others are fortunately just like us, stuck on their own little planets, post-infant Type I civilizations trying to learn to walk.
We should indeed send a beacon to discover and attempt to communicate with our (extra)galactic neighbors... and that beacon should consist of nothing except me warning them not to come here yet.
I run SETI@home for the warm feeling I get to know that I'm a part of something larger than myself which I do not regard as inimical to my own or any others' natures. It's also a good benchmarking program for CPU cycle utilization. The colors are pretty. It looks cool and people sometimes ask me what it is, so it also helps break the ice socially when people come wandering through my office (this happens all the time). Also, I LOVE writing these profile thingies.
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