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| Personal background |
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| I am 28 years into my life and past the 2500 work package milestone. My wife and I have a 3 year-old daughter and she keeps us busy. I am a technician with Texas Instruments in Tucson. I am a part time blues guitarist and singer with delusions of someday feeding myself with my meager musical talents. When not busy with family, I like to unwind with good books, music, on-line poker and WW II flight simulators (I'm a wannabe pilot). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Life is not unique to this corner of the universe any more than hydrogen. Life is simply a chemical reaction that replicates itself. But that replication is the dfference. The distances between sentient life may be the biggest obstacle to the discovery of other sentient life forms. It will probably take decades or even centuries to find another civilization like our own. But then what? If this theoretical civilization is anything like us, do we really want to visit them or give them our address? Will we find the means to bridge the vast distances of the space between us? Maybe they will have no interest in our civilization. But then again, maybe we could gain much wisdom and end the petty bickering amongst ourselves and finally put an end to human suffering, hopelessness, and purge the general evil in our world. I am realistic, but I also have much hope for humanity. SETI@home is a part of that hope. I run SETI@home because if nothing else, it may help to prove that nothing exists like us anywhere else. That is what scientists do with their theories: they eliminate all possibilities until only one remains. And that one possibility must then be the answer. Maybe there are beings on another planet that are looking out into the night sky and asking themselves, "Is there anybody out there?" |
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