Profile: Brent Kirkley

Personal background
I work in the technology industry, currently for Sun Microsystems, previously for Digital Equiptment, Compaq and many other various groups. Professionally I am a systems, integration, and architectural engineer.

Being a single adult I have to keep myself busy on the weekends so I play in a Christian rock band, which is very fun and makes me happy.

I started running SETI a few years back as an experiment and it just sort of became a standard benchmark for my own uses. :P Funny how that stuff seems to happen!

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Yes I do believe that God didn't just create one lame bunch of loosers like us in the universe.. he had to have at least a few more to make it worth doing, don't you think! :P

My personal guess is that if an intelligence exists and has the technology to reach us then they probably have the technology to hear the 'call' so to speak. However their own 'call' is probably way beyond our own understanding as of yet.

As for the message.., make it simple.. say 'Hello!'. Piping other data out into the unknown runs the risk of overloading or possibly even scaring another potential race of beings away.

My views.., lets find even new technologies in which to scan the universe with. Hey.. what about puting a SETI team on the moon.. wouldn't that cut down on interferance!

/bk
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