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| Personal background |
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| I am a retired academic (70) with amateur math (Egyptian Fractions) and computing interests (Graph theory), a Japanese garden, and a fascination with data analysis using evolving neural net techniques. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I have run Seti since 2002, off and on, despite the low reward power, because the cause is a good one and donating processor time is meaningful, despite no spectacular candidates to date. Perhaps civilisations only fleetingly reach the stage of powered communication signals in the bands we search, or there are life forms not suited to our methods, or alien life forms already have arrived here. If the project reviewed the scope and protocols more widely the direction might change. Are we hitched to the wrong wagon? Given organisational reality and politics, change is unlikely, and our best shot might be to hear out the current program. Why not do a detailed study of contact options based on potential technologies and communication types by our ability to detect these streams, on a rolling basis? Critically recheck existing search assumptions more publicly with wider input from across a wider selection of fields such as fiction writers, humanities, biologists, chemists, etc. It is not all Drake and Hawkins though they capture much of the public imagination. |
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