I am a software engineer currently engaged in a lot of coding and analysis, design, follow-up activities. I have been using the internet since the early 90s and have graduated up from Lynx browsers to the current new Web Technologies.
I watch all major American Sports and I am an avid cricket fan.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
ET does exist; however they may not have the intelligence that we possess. Intelligence is a fleeting moment, just as life is. So we may discover an intelligence thousands of light years away and probably observe it's decline over a period of time. Hopefully that will be a lesson in history for humankind.
Listening for intelligence is a good idea and therefore SETI is the best thing going on in this regard. We are a reflective species and it is natural for us to reflect on what is out there. SETI satisfies this natural curiosity in a reflective human being and that is why it has more than 3 million users. The education that is imparted to us over a period of time finally draws us to seti and we start running the software to be part of this reflective process. However this is different from say a child walking. A particular level of curiosity has to be attained before undertaking this stuff. Ofcourse a powerful machine alway helps and so does a good internet connection!!!
Transmitting is not really such a good idea as an alien intelligence may not be listening or listening for something else at that point in time! It is tempting though to send something in the hope that the SETI@home user in another universe on the other side of a black hole can get the time warped dark matter modulated signal!!
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
