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| Personal background |
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I'm a 38 year old family man and cosmology enthusiast.
I am also a great believer in projects like SETI and others that promote the advancement of our understanding of the Universe, or multi-verse, we live in. I am a sucker for science, and more specifically, cosmology.
I firmly believe we can't possibly be alone in the Universe, or even our own galaxy. The odds are just so stacked against it, there has to be other intelligent civilizations out there, or has been.
I see this as my way of helping make extraterrestrial intelligence a scientific fact. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do you run SETI@home?
I think the possibility of detecting an intelligent alien civilization using radio is quite small, since we are assuming we will detect it at the window of its history where they used radio as a form of communication, and that's likely to be a small window in time. Not to mention the distances involved.
Even we ourselves are exploring new forms of technology for computing and communication, such as quantum entanglement, and this is only a little over 120 years after radio was discovered and proved practical and even less time since the first radio signals powerful enough to make it through the ionosphere and into space. An incredibly miniscule window in time in the grand scheme of things.
Its safe to assume any advanced civilization that did not destroy itself, also explored other forms of communication and computing other than radio to overcome it's limitations. Thus they would also presumably have a very small window of detection by radio. So if we do detect them, they will likely be very far away, long gone, or well beyond the radio stage by the time those signals reach us. Or any combination of those three.
Still, if it's possible to detect other intelligent life in this manner, no matter how small the possibility, it's worth doing, the question is simply too profound to not try. No matter how far away it is or how long ago the signal originated, if we can detect anything from a civilizations window of radio use, it still proves one thing. Intelligent life exists, and that's whats it's all about for me.
This is why I decided to help out SETI@home, it might not be much, but if I can contribute to this task by allowing my hardware to help in the search, then I am happy to do so.
What are your views about the project?
I have known about it for some time, but never really got around to joining it, until now. I realized how much time my systems here at home sit idle, not doing anything but consuming electricity.
So I decided to put them to work, the extra energy consumed is small and more then worth contributing to the task. At least I can say they are doing something to help answer one of the biggest outstanding questions we have.
Any suggestions?
None yet, but I have only just started. I am sure I will have some in time. :) |
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