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| Personal background |
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| I'm an undergraduate computer science student at Cornell University in the College of Arts and Sciences. I've been playing with SETI@Home since I was in high school and first read about the project on the net; ever since then SETI@Home is one of the first software packages installed on new systems of mine. My goal is to some day build an incredibly powerful supercomputer to crunch SETI so I can be one of the top users. :) Otherwise, I'm an avid space freak and hopefully soon a member of the Cornell Athena rover project, which is building the twin rovers that NASA is sending to Mars this winter. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Indeed extraterrestrial life does exist. Intelligent life is another question; is there even intelligent life on Earth? I think mathematically it's almost impossible for life to not exist in the universe, and since we're living on the outer arm of our own spiral galaxy I believe there ought to be thousands of highly advanced civilizations nearer to our galactic core. Perhaps they are waging war with other advanced civilizations who are so busy on the fronts that they never sent probes to our own pale blue dot in our average sun's solar system.
We don't really need to broadcast anything specific to aliens --- we already are in our TV/radio/etc. broadcasts! But I think the SETI@Home project is great and ought to be continued until we find that first real candidate signal that reveals the truth. That could be today, two years from now, or never. It's exciting though! |
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