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| Personal background |
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I am a 2nd year Computer Science student at the University of British Columbia. I have a great love for the outdoors, particularly, I like swimming (only in open waters) and hiking/backpacking. I also have an "early" interest in tinkering with my PC and also building PCs.
PC running S@H : AMD XP 1800 |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe in the exitence of extraterrestrial life and I believe that a discovery will not be made for at least 200 years. It would be quite naive to expect to find something in such a short amount of search period. Besides, I belive that humanity is not ready yet. (We had our first world war less than 100 years ago, discovered nuclear fission less than 60 years ago, and still rely on fossil fuels for most of our energy needs etc.) As a spceies, we are very "immature" So why do I run SETI@home? I believe that every little bit helps. I don't run SETI@home because I want to make the discovery myself. NO! The way I view it is, that by running SETI@home I am eliminating the negative results, so that someone else can find the positive one.
Some people say that it if nothing is found, then it is an awfull waste of space. I guess people find it hard to belive that there is a chance that we inhabit one of the few inhabitable planets in the galaxy. Why? Fear. This would mean that we are freaks of nature. Out of all the randomness and probability and whoknowswhat, the universe managed to create something more sophisticated than a chunk of space debris. We find it hard to accept that we might be special cases, very rare freaks. "Waste of space." Now what kind of a simplistic thinking is that? There is no such thing as waste of space, since the universe is not conscious enough to execute an action as complicated as wasting of space. Just think opportunism people. These conditions will help us (humanity) conquer more space without encountering opposition.
For reasons mentioned in the first part, we should not be in much of a hurry to send out a beacon. If we do though, I think that the message's first line should be a note saying: "Caution. The information contained in the following text is outdated by approximately [current age of universe - age of universe at probe launch] years."
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