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| Personal background |
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| Webmaster in Williamsburg, VA (USA). Interests: Music, sci-fi, tech, information, life, etc. Profile: Married but no kids, non-smoker, pro-choice, pro-NASA/SETI, pro-2nd Amendment, non-partison, anti-ignorance, anti-hate, and activist for freedom of information and media without censorship. Personal websites: OpenUpAndSay.com, an online music magazine, part of my NetworkOfMinds.com, a news portal and more. And I am a News Admin at Zeropaid, a file-sharing portal. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) Yes, extraterrestrial life must exist, but nobody can guess when or how we will discover it and what the dangers from doing so would be. If we do, it will be a matter of convincing the world that such a discovery is fact, not science-fiction, and we will have to decide how suck information may be used and whether it has any immediate benefits to us.
2) There is no reason not to transmit a beacon for others to find. Whether linguistically another lifeform on another planet would be able to read that transmission is unknown.
3) I run SETI@home for two reasons: First, I'm an tech professional that feels a computer not is use is a waste of electricity and parts, so this type of joint computing is perfect when an increasing number of home computers are running on always-connected broadband and are on when the user isn't using them. Secondly, I believe in SETI's cause and realize that they do not have the funds to successfully compute all the data they collect without 3 million Internet users' help. It doesn't hurt that SETI was the first to get this type of project underway successfully, either. There are new projects needing computing power for bio-technology research and hopefully those programs will take off and convince more Internet users of the importance of being a part of such projects. |
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