|
| Personal background |
|---|
myself
i'm john, am sixteen years old, and live in south-west michigan. i've been interested in technology and the sky since i can remember (which i realize has not been a very long time considering my age, but it's safe to assume that i've been interested since i've been able to gaze). i love to work on computers, read, paint, stare at photographs of the beauties held within the universe, and spend time with friends trying to get new perspectives on my conundrums.
my computer
1. athlonXP 1700 with 384 mb of sdram (i will upgrade to ddr when i have the money).
2. pentium 4 1.6 ghz with 256 mb of rdram. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
extraterrestrial life
i do think extraterrestrial life exists, however, i do not count on humans ever discovering it. at least, not in my life time. i also do not beleive we've been contacted, but that's just because i don't have evidence supporting any such theories. ideally, humans will be discovered, or will discover extraterrestrial life, in my life time, although i know that, trying to take the vastness of the universe into consideration, the chances are slim to none.
transmitting information
i think it'd be most beneficial to transmit some sort of information, if nothing else, to show other civilizations, provided they exist and are listening, that we do in fact exist. i don't really have any idea as to what sort of message this should be, but the one humans supposedly found in the movie "contact" (a sequence of prime numbers between 1 and 101) was a pretty good idea, i think. interlacing this signal with video, and interlacing that with instructions written in some scientific language, though, would be useless, as i doubt any civilization receiving it would be able to decipher it.
seti@home
i run seti@home because it's my little contribution to science. being at the age i am, it'd be pretty impossible to help without seti@home. i realize i'm only one person and probably won't make much of a differnece, but this isn't about people as individiuals. it is about people as a race. if everyone had the mentality of one person being insignificant, this project wouldn't exist. moreover, there's no point in wasting my computer's power. |
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
| Account data |
View |
| Team |
None |
|
