I'm a big fan of Seti@home ( http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ) and was wondering if I created a Seti TechTalk group, if anyone would be willing to join it.

For those who aren't aware, Seti uses our unused CPU time to investigate satellite reads in search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It's funded by The Planetary Society, Sun, Intel, and many other big companies, and has been around for many, many years.

I wonder when we'll come across extraterrestrial intelligence. There's very little intelligence on this planet so we're in desperate need of all that we can get.

yes, i wud b very interested!

ROFLMBO!!! 2funny inscissor!

i was looking for a quote by Carl Sagan that went somethinglike 'Either we are alone, or we're not, either way it's amazing' when i found this quote by Arthur C. Clark: "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

personally i don't see how we can be the lone sentient species of the universe.

Carl Sagan was definitely a great one. I watched most of his documentaries. "Billions and Billions" was a real treat.

On the subject of quotes... I'd like to share some of my favorites. I used to have these on my diary a while back.

Educational/Inspirational:

You tell me, and I'll forget. You show me, and I'll remember. You involve me, and I'll learn.

Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Von Gogh

Life is a hard teacher. First it gives you the test, then it gives you the lesson.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't is a fool forever.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

Romantic Quotes (Yeah, even I have a weak spot. )

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

I love you not for what you are but for what I am when I'm with you."

Things do not change, we change.



I have some funny ones, but they would spoil the mood after reading the above.

Why inscissor, i must now view u in a somewhat different light - very kewl! btw, i'm fairly certain your 1st quote is attributable to Benjamin Franklin. i've never compiled a list of my favorite quotes, but, now, i'm thinking i should start doing so...

Seti scans the skies for leaked radio waves, like the TV Signals we are transmitting now. the bad news is, we are getting more and more efficent and less and less information is leaving our Solar System. Your mobile telphone call is sent via high-frequency radiowaves (on the verge of Microwave radiation) which is absorbed by interceding matter much faster than low frequency radio waves. Cable TV signals don't even get into the air, and Satalite Signals are of course beamed towards Earth from Space, not the otherway round.
So if we are getting more efficent at preventing leaked radio waves, why shouldn't another civillisation? There is pratically no chance we would they would be in between the first phases of radio transmission and the first phases of preventing leakage... unless, of course, they are looking for us.

I prefer to use my CPU to help find a cure for cancer.

You're going to view me in a different light now? Oh man, how did you view me before?

quite favorably bro, but not some1 who was a '90s man (as we would say - "back in the day"). very glad 2c u've got heart as well as brains.

1) I know next to nothing about signal propogation and related technologies.

2) It is my understanding that transmitted signals are radiated in a 360 degree sphere - and if this is so then the satellite signals are indeed being sent to our interstellar neighbors as well.

3) We can only base our knowledge of technological growth on the one and only model we know of - our own. What if our growth could be termed abnormally rapid when compared to other "technically advanced" civilazations (should the opportunity ever arise)? For that matter, to be fair, we may also be defined as slow under the same comparison - who's to say?

4) Regardless of the window of opportunity, it only takes the interception, and conclusive analysis, of one artificially generated signal not of terrestial progeny to prove the point of extra-terrestial intelligence.

We all have our causes in life, and I can think of none more worthwhile than pursuit of cancers' cures.

Thanks aeinstein. It's ok if you had that impression. This is, after all, a tech forum, so that's all I really can talk about. As far as me posting what you think about psychoanalysis or psychometrics or anything related with psychology, well... I don't think it would go over that well here (I'm into Psychology). Also, I'm into music, theater, and arts as much as I am into computers, but I don't post much about that stuff. Very passionate actually. I started playing the piano and drawing/sculpting since I was about four. Anyways, if I had posted stuff related on those subjects (like why I prefer Chopin's music over Beethoven's), it would've definitely given you a different view of me, so I think anyways. But sometimes it's ok to judge a book by its cover... initally, because how else are you going to judge it if you don't know anything else about it? Just be aware that the cover isn't the reason why you're buying it... well... unless you're insane.

Just my thoughts.