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| Hello there! My name is Nick and I'm here to give you some insight into myself. I, like many others on this planet, honestly don't believe I belong here. This place has never felt like home, and unfourtunately, I really don't know where home is. I know just one thing, home is out there... Somewhere. First, I'll tell you that I have a deep, passionate obsession for Astronomy, particularly Astrophysics. How did I get this obsession? Well, it all started years ago when I saw a televison program with a Theoretical Physicist named Michio Kaku. I found some of his theories to be incredibly interesting, so I purchased one of his books. The book was titled "Beyond Einstein". Never before had I read a book that rapidly changed my life such as this one did. Even before I finished it, I quickly went out and purchased all of his writings. Yet still, I found myself needing more, considerably more. So, my quest for knowledge began. I started extensive research on Quantum Theory, Theory of Relativity, and one theory in particular, Superstring Theory. Somewhere in this boundless yet detailed amount of information I had to stop to ask myself a very simple question... Why? Sure, I find this research interesting and enjoyable, but what was I trying to find? Well, I may not have realized it at the time, but I soon found that what I was seeking is the same thing which I believe most beings pursue... The answer. To what you may ask? To the universe, to life. It then became clear that what I seek could not be found in any book on Earth. However, moments later it dawned on me as to where the exact location of this resolution lies. In fact, I gaze at the very cover of the book that contains this answer every single night. Ahh, yes, that humbling, awe-inspiring endless breadth above... This my friends, this is where my mission in life begins. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| My mission in life is to get the H-E double hockey stick off this planet and go explore our universe in hopes of finding that which I pursue. Well, I don't know about you, but I see a major problem in doing this. I'm thinking I was born a few thousand (possible hundred thousand) years to soon. This being the case, I must kick my mission objective in life down a few notchs in order to accommodate our lack of sufficient technology. So, I seek my answers by studing astronomy and observing the universe from this very small, very confined planet called Earth. This is also where SETI@Home comes into play. You know, I've know about this program for an extensive amount of time, however, I never really considered joining until recently when I heard of an event I never knew of before. This event was known as the reception of the "WOW!" signal. Like my obsessive compulsive self usually does, I researched this event to exhaustion. Granted no single person every truely made a conclusion on what caused this signal, at least one person made a conclusion on what did NOT cause this signal. The result was that this signal was not made by us, or by any interference caused by us. The thing I find humorous in this, is that many scientists believe that if we find a true ETI signal, it will be in exactly the same manner we found the "WOW!" signal and chances are we will find it only once. Huh! Funny that the "WOW!" signal meets the criteria we look for but there's no way this signal was spawned from ETI (I'm being sarcastic in case you can't tell). Based on that fact and many others, I made my own conclusion and I will let you guess as to what the result was. So, I joined the SETI@Home team in hopes of finding signals like these in the future. All in all, SETI@Home gives me just a little more hope that I may find part of the answer I so desperately need to acquire. Not only that, but maybe, just maybe it will help me to find where my home, sweet home, really is... |
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