| Personal background |
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FedEx Senior Ops Admin, ZDOV/0075 (Dover, NJ).
Bucknell University, Drew University.
Rugby, Shooting. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| SETI is look on as the fringe of science, but what is considered fringe today may become the bedrock of a new discipline in the future. SETI@home is also a brilliant solution to a pedestrian problem. When budget cuts took away SETI's ability to buy time on a mainframe computer for data analysis, some clever folks figured a way to crowdsource the work. Instead of one giant mainframe computer they wrote programs to link millions of personal computers around the world to do the work. Rather than simply quit in frustration, the SETI team adapted and overcame this problem. What a perfect metaphor for the human race; we adapt and we keep moving forward. It's in our DNA. I like being a part of such an elegant solution, and I appreciate the fact that the project uses idle computer cycles so it doesn't interfere with normal computer usage. Much of science starts as what the mainstream considers fringe ideas. Those who doubted the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe were derided and ostracized. Galileo was branded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The implications of proving we are not alone in the universe are staggering. We can hardly imagine how such knowledge will change us and how it will challenge us. |
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