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| Personal background |
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I 36 year of age, I was born in Lompoc, California near Vandanburg AFB. I have a wide variety of life experience from stables to computers. My early childhood I was raised around a suburbial, stable and ranch environment. My later childhood through the time I graduated, I lived on a 40' sloop. To this day I miss that, the ocean and the life. And out on the ocean the stars couldn't be more beautiful (from an earthly perspective). You get away from the land and the city lights and you can read a book by the star and moon light alone. I spent 8 years in the Army as a Medical Specialist, Field / Combat Medicine. Spent much of my time with Scouts in an armor batallion and was secondarily trained as weapons specialist and demolitions. (Now that was fun!) How was it that it was said in the movie Armagedon.. "The pay is good, the sceenery changes and I get to play with explosives.." I have been building computers nearly since they have been buildable accounting for nearly 20 years experience in the technology industry. I love life, technology, sci-fi, and fantacy. Where would we be without imagination?
Yea... It's ramble, I know... I will edit it out latter. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1a. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists?
I cannot think of a time I have ever beleived it could possibly be otherwise. Even as a child I could not believe that we are the only ones. Couldnt explain it but knew to the core of my soul there had to be more.
1b. If so, when and how will humans discover it?
There are far to many possibilities to flip a coin or speculate at. Whether we discover them or they discover us, whether it would be here or there that the discovery be made. In either case I think it is arrogant of man to think that they will be the one to make the discovery. Personally I believe we have more chance of being discovered than making the discovery. But it being chance and the nature of chance the possibility does exist that man will make the discovery.
1c. What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
Talk about a can of worms! This is an area I fear to tread. Mankind has a long way to go befor it is ready for an interstellar relationship with another species. Mankind (in general not as a whole, as there are few exceptions) cannot get along with its own environment, let alone its next door neibor or neiboring country. There is far too much predudice and intollerance in our world. How could we expect to have a healty relationship with a species not of this world?
2a. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?
Sure, Why not? It can only provide better chance that a discovery is made.
2b. If so, what information should we send? Something that is easily defined against the bacground of the rest of the noise in the universe. Though to say "We come in pease" I feel would be like sending a trojan horse.
3a. Why do you run SETI@home?
It is something I believe in, something I support. I have the facilities and systems running 24-7 and are for the most part idle a good portion of that time. If all goes as planned I expect to be crunching about 50 units a day by the end of the year. With plenty of resources left for handling their more mundane tasks. |
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