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| Personal background |
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| I'm a 31 year old guy, okay geek, from Southern California. I'm a professional chemist, amateur singer, and regular computer junkie. Saw a co-worker running this and thought, "Hey, what the heck, it'll give me something to look at while I'm bored." Also helped me break in my new CPU at home. I'm kinda a homebody and spend my free time reading, singing (obviously), cooking (and eating), computer games, numatistics, and Disneyland (ex-castmember who never really threw off the brainwashing). I'm also a total rice-boy wanna-be. Maybe someday when I have money, I'll indulge in that. Single at the moment, but then again, I'm a geek, so that's no surprise. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well, I don't really know if I think there is any kind of life in space. I don't doubt the possibility, but I think our chances of finding it are exceedingly slim. For all we know, we were just some huge cosmic accident. If it exists, and if we find it (chances are they are hiding from us, and I don't blame them), it won't be for a very long time. I doubt any of us will live to see it, and certainly not before "they" WANT us to find them. Honestly, I don't think that we as a whole people or society are ready for it. We can't even deal amicably with people in our own cities/states/countries/world, god help us if we are let loose on a whole other world. The benefits and dangers are, basically, off the charts. Sure, new technology, but look what we've done with the techs we've discovered ourselves.
I don't think that we need to send a beacon out. 1) If there is anyone out there to find, they most likely already know we're here, and are hiding. 2) If they DON'T know we are here, a beacon would tell them, and initiate the contact we are not prepared for. In the end, all we'd be doing is giving G.W. Bush, Jr another excuse to go to war and "liberate" them. Whatever information we send, and I think it would have to be something simple enough to be universally (no pun intended) understood, but complicated enough to show we're not complete idiots, just the immature and juvenile race that we are.
I think the concept of the project is amazing. Really broke out of the "box" on that one. I'm looking forward to when you spread this project out to other regions (to scan more of the sky). I can't offer many other suggestions because I really don't know how it works. I just let it go and do it's own thing... no mods, overclocking, hacks, or whatever here. |
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