| Personal background |
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| I am a retired college professor of biology. Late in my career I developed an interest in the search for life in space and organized a course and a seminar focused on this topic. I've always had an interest in astronomy and found the marriage of biology and astronomy is an excellent way to make science meaningful and challenging for non-science majors. Fortunately, my institution has continued to call on me to teach on a part-time basis in my retirement. Next semester (spring 2006) I will offer a course entitled: Astrobiology: Searching for Life beyond Earth. The SETI project will be included among those topics dealing with how we are going about looking for life in space. SETI@home provides me with a tangible connection to an important aspect of that search. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I think that anyone who appreciates the vastness of our galaxy believes that somewhere out there, advanced forms of intelligent life may be asking the same questions that we contemplate about our own existence here on Earth. The recent discoveries of planets orbiting other stars only serve to heighten our interest in eventually locating Earth-like planets that may support life--maybe even intelligent life capable of communicating across the vastness of space. The SETI project has taken on an immense challenge, and if one day a signal bearing intelligent coding should be intercepted here on Earth, it will have a profound impact on human societies, not too unlike our emergence from the Dark Ages several centuries ago. |
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