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| Personal background |
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I'm a 55 year old Canadian from Toronto, now back living in Omaha, Nebraska with my wife and 4 year old son. (Both will get hooked on SETI@Home too - and BOINC - as soon as the subliminal tapes take effect!)
First profession - a DB2 Data Base Analyst - working on "big iron" for over 34 years, and now - Chosen NEW profession for the last two years - my own PC technical consulting and support service.
By choice - a committed Sci-Fi addict, novice PC hacker, DC addict, digital camera phreak, and long-time SETI dreamer.
By affiliation - proudly DC crunching with Ars on TLC (and a member of TRS and AFS !).
(Must build more boxen !)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have been interested in science all my life, and discovered "Sci-Fi" when I was about 6 years old. By age 10 I had read through the entire stack in the library of the small town where I was raised. Fascination with other cultures and life-forms has only grown over time.
The more I learn about our world - and the "rest of the universe", the more I realize what incredible arrogance we would possess to believe that we are all there is. The Drake equation is only one small demonstration of the inevitability of teeming life throughout the universe.
Whether our little planet happens to be at the right place and right time to receive radio waves from other civilizations is somewhat problematic. Think about it - we have only HAD radio for about a century. Other civilizations may or may not be transmitting intentional signals - but we would be terribly remiss not to at least listen. If anything, we need to increase our coverage and search sensitivity - and patience!
The discovery that "we are not alone", and any other associated knowledge we can thus attain, will have profound impact on humanity from that time forward. If I don't live to see it, I hope my son Jacob will :-)
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