Profile: Justin

Personal background
i live in central new york (the state, not the city). i think that i'd die if i didn't have music to listen to. maybe not but i'd sure want to. i really like science a lot. and i'm also into that whole romance/love stuff. i'm a big chump when it comes to girls. it's my tragic flaw.

find out more about me at www.livejournal.com (user name: 2hands10fingers)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
i do believe that extraterrestrial life exists. will we ever discover it? maybe. maybe not. if i remember correctly, the universe is pretty big. slightly bigger than a bread box to be exact. so who knows? but searching for it with radio telescopes is probably our best bet to finding intelligent life. it's pretty ridiculous to think of discovering life in the manner of the movie "independence day". we could benefit in no way by detecting life or we could benefit in ways that we can't imagine. we could also suffer in no way or in ways we can't imagine. but i think it's more likely that we'll benefit in some way or another.

transmitting a beacon in my opinion isn't really necessary. because think of all the other crap we've been sending out into space. everything from i love lucy (which is horrible) to every city's terrible morning radio show. if there were some kind of life out there that could detect our signals, be it intentional ones or not, i doubt they'd be able to understand it. just like i doubt we'd be able to understand their signals. and even if they could decipher what ours meant, they probably wouldn't know what was serisou and what was not.

i run SETI@home because i love science, space, those big questions in life (like are we alone?). and i like the idea of helping other people like myself. i personally don't have a radio telescope or an optical one for that matter. and if i had a radio telescope i wouldn't know the first thing about how to use it. so this is my way of being involved. i might only be helping a little bit. but there a lots of other people helping in little bits. so together it adds up to one big ferocious bit.
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