After such a long time of waiting and procrastination, I’ve finally, seriously started in building a homepage of my own. The design of the site has already been determined by me. Basically, the whole site will be based on the utilization of roughly 3 colors; the noon sky’s blue, white and black. Those three colors are going to be my official color. Some of the prototypes have already been posted on Geocities. So far, no problems that I can’t handle off.
The latest event is the reintroduction of SETI into my life. And yes, for those of you who were born in the eighties and believe in E.T., SETI is the acronym for The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It’s also famous for its relation with the Aceribo’s Dish in Puerto Rico. Aceribo Dish is the largest single radio telescope in the world. It could be the most well known telescope of all.
Right now, with Athlon 1.7, a processor that has a very respectable computation power for home users, I’m helping the people in UC Berkeley in their search for aliens. It’s pretty interesting. It makes my computer even cooler. When the computer is being idle, it runs a screensaver that acts as a radio transmission analyzer.
SETI was first established by NASA in their quest to answer the question “Are we alone?” The program scanned the whole wide skies for unusual radio transmissions. The idea is to send out radio signals and hope that somebody out there will return our “call”. For years now, the program has been scanning the sky without much success. A few of the researchers themselves believe the odd of finding E.T. will be as large as what 3-CPO’s calculation of getting out of an asteroid field alive.
In the beginning, there were a lot of hypes and excitement. However, the excitement lost its momentum quickly and lastly, the American’s Congress, the institution that finances NASA told NASA to drop SETI out of its program. The reason that was given – SETI program is highly expensive. Although there were a lot of objection against the Congress’ directive, NASA finally bowed to the pressure and scraped SETI.
Nevertheless, a few scientists that were involved in that program continue to run SETI on their own in hope that their energy will not be wasted. One example of these group is the UC Berkeley’s version of SETI.
Is there any intelligence life form out there? If there is, does that mean the foundation of the world’s main religions will crumble under its own weight?
Most religions say that human is the best creation ever. They’re the only intelligence species in this realm. It would be interesting to see people’s reaction if we will ever meet up with another intelligence life form. We can speculate but the truth is out there. (Does that phrase sounds familiar?)
