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Me, Im just some guy :)
Manufacturing Engineer from Adelaide, Australia (though I trained in Melbourne)... born without fanfare early in 1972 and lived the rest of my life this way...
No PhD, No Honours degrees, just a talent for math and physics and the ability to make plastic bits, which is what I do for a living, manufacturing systems for opthalmic lenses to be exact :)
When Im not working I read too much, drink beer, talk obscure philosphy with my friends, crowbar in some Counter-Strike and try hard to enjoy life...
I share a studio apartment overlooking the beach in southern Adelaide with a playstation, several computers, a broadband link and a large Television..
Its been said I talk too much and should use less ellipsis in typed messages :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I absolutely believe in the existance of extraterrestrial life. Intelligence, self awareness, who knows; I certainly don't pretend to. why SETI@home?? (or any of the other distributed computing initiatives I'm involved in)... First, community spirit, I'm not using the cycles, so they should serve a purpose for the species. Secondly because I believe that RF communication is the logical medium for an intelligence with which we are able to communicate to contact us...
My logic?? ok, let me start with this. In UFO's as alien craft, I don't believe, these are most likely advanced terrestrial vehicles, abductions most likely unethical medical experimentation, this being said; let us say you are bob the ET #1 and you are sufficiently similar to us in paradigm that communication between us is possible, you have the technology to cross the universe. Therefore you have already developed "nanotechnology", MEMS and other forms of extreme miniaturisation, such that we here do not have the technology to detect any probes they may send to investigate us. In the second case, let us consider that you, Bob the ET #2, are like us, you have just clawed your way into the age of reason without some religious kook or overly territorial goon nuking your species into extinction (although we are still not decided on religious kooks), you cant cross the gulf of stars, but have a dire message to share.
In the first case, you eventually decide a species is sufficiently advanced with which to communicate and, from the intelligence and data gathered, that those with the higher levels of intellectual and moral development are exactly those who will first recieve your message. In the second, you desparately want to try and tell other species how you managed to survive, that you are here and dont want anymore to be alone in the dark anymore. The medium? RF communication. It travels great distances and is readily received by a similarly advanced and intentioned species and, importantly, is non-threatening (probably :). |
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