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| Personal background |
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I'm more of a nontraditional geek. I've got a (un)healthy background in physics and a bit of engineering, but decided English literature would be much more fun. I'll be teaching the nation's youth in the next year or two. Scarry, isn't it.
I'm a bit more active than my typical geek friends. While most of them spent the summer working for IBM and Intel, I found employment on the river. I'm a bonafied river-rafting-white-water guide in Colorado. While I enjoy hacking about Linux and dragging cable through drywall, my passions are really rooted in non-electrical things. I love to kayak, run, snow shoe, raft, backpack, you get the picture.
The picture I included is of me at Black Rock in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado. It's one of the nastiest class V rappids I've ever seen. In the picture, I've just been pulled back into the boat by my belt and the river is draining out of my helmet.
P.S. Our raft didn't flip, Jorege's did though :)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I would certainly like to beleive that life exists outside our world; all that space and only one planet sure seems like a terrible wase. What keeps me up at night and busts my head is the concept of alien thought. I think it's rather pompous to beleive that an alien being would have the same motivations and rationale as we do. They would have evolved under very different circumstances and therefore have a dramatically different view of the universe.
I often wonder if our concept of mathematics and science are not just products of our own perception of the universe. Is it possible that creatures of another planet evolved in such a different manner that they view the universe in a manner that is completly unfathomable for humans? I beleive that this is indeed possible; this type question lies deep in the realm of meta-physical philosophy and beyond the realm of my 2000 characters.
Think about it. What if we discover alien life, but can't even communicate because we think in such vastly different ways? What ever shall we do? Let's hope they don't wear silver underwear, have razor sharp teeth and have a taste for people meat (appologies to the Aquabats). |
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