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| Personal background |
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I was born in Bogota, Colombia. Oct. 6, 1939.
I'm pensioned and mostly dedicated to my hobby in computers and computer animation.
I used to work in insurance and for nearly 14 years I was the Insurance and Claims manager for Avianca Airlines, the oldest Airline in the American Continent, second only to KLM for a couple of months.
I was very much interested and I have always believe in life outside the earth.
One of my "heroes" if you want to call it like that, was Carl Sagan, of whom I came to know about around 1968, when I read a much interested book he wrote with I. S. Shklovskii, titled "Intelligent Life in the Universe" since then I followed him during his career and red most of his works, including his novel "Contact", and seeing the movie obviously of which I have a DVD. Also I've the entire Cosmos series in video and the book, and much more.
Computer - Pentium IV 3GHZ, 512MB, Windows XP. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1 - Why do you run SETI@home? - I think that extraterrestrial life exist. The universe is huge enough not to have other types of life away from earth. When it'll be discovered? I can't predict it, all I know is that we are working more toward that direction in this last thirty years or so, that it made be easier for us to have more possibilities to find extraterrestrial intelligent life now, than before, when we were doing nothing.
2 - Yes, why not? What we are doing through SETI and SETI@home is precisely that, we are hopping some intelligent life have send a beacon, for whoever pick it, know of their existence. I think we shall be reciprocal. Well, I don't exactly know what to send to them, but following Carl Sagan example, I would sent them some beeps counting prime numbers. Also music, works classical and popular. Music is something that denotes the grade of civilization.
3. - Well this was something of much interest, one of my goes in life was to be a scientist, some one involve in profound investigation, but not always what you want to be can be realized. SETI@home presented to me that possibility, at least to help you people or some one like Sagan, and be their pair by helping you in one of the most exiting goes to find extraterrestrial life. That's why since I knew of you I went and subscribed, and I'm with you since the first of June 1999.
I think your project and the way you're conducting it is outstanding, to have collected an immense bank of computers around the world, it was something. I read some one saying that this type of work should have used for reading the human genoma.
My suggestion is this: I now you're limited to some radio frequency hoping some
intelligent civilization lost somewhere in this or another galaxy have sent a radio beacon in that particular frequency you are looking. I would prefer to scan all frequencies maybe there are not beacons sent purposely, maybe we can pick up radio or TV stations just like in earth. Another suggestion is to look trough another radio telescope in the world, not only Arecibo where you are just limited to a portion of the sky, somewhere like in the southern hemisphere. |
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