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I am a 38 year old musician (guitar player) with a wife, a son and several interesting pets. My favorite pet would have to be my Peruvian Milk Snake. (a kingsnake to most of us) His name is Slick Willy and he is a very easy pet to deal with. The most difficult part of caring for my snake is feeding him. Willy will eat 4 to 6 juvenile mice once monthly, which requires me to sentence these poor rodents to death. Who knows, maybe some of them were muderers or rapists in their past lives who were never punished.
My favorite activities outside of work (music) include backyard astronomy, telescopes, star charts, astronomy books.... I also enjoy camping, cave exploring, sailing, snorkeling and travel. I had the opportunity to travel with my wife in Mexico for 6 months working on a documentary crew. We were able to visit 24 Meso-American cities including Teotihuacan, Palenque, Chichen Itza and many more. Without a doubt, it was the trip of my (our) lifetime(s).
My wife, Vandy, is a teacher and an academic administrator at our local college. She is also into and a supporter of SETI and SETI@HOME. She was raised with Carl Sagan as her "weekly church." She is wonderfully intelligent, and aint bad lookin' to boot! I'm a really luck guy! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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If I did not believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life, I would never have involved myself with SETI. Yes! There ARE other intelligent races out there! Perhaps we will contact them via SETI, or by a completely random encounter. Maybe they have already found US, and have decided that we, as a race, are still not advanced enough to handle meeting. Perhaps they fear our weapons of mass destruction. If they are monitoring us, which I feel very confident that they are, they have seen the devastation that we have reaped upon ourselves, the sorrow and pain that we have inflicted upon our bretheren and decided to let us mature for a few more million years.
We often think of "Intellegent" life as being inherently friendly. What if however, we encounter an intelligent race whose designs for us are so very distant from our ideals that it makes us quake in our boots? As humans, we have proven that just because a race has intelligence, doesn't make it a friendly race. We seem to do everything we can to destroy ourselves in unspeakable manners. Perhaps a danger of an encounter with an intelligent race would be our ultimate destruction, as the "Intelligent" ones we meet may not deem us worthy of existence. Maybe they would see us as a direct threat to them. We can't even stop ourselves from killing our own kind, so what's to stop us, in their minds, from killing them?
Should we transmit a beacon? Sure. In said beacon, we should try to convince other intelligent societies that we come in peace, not harm. We come in the spirit of love and friendship. Of course, first time they look at our home planet, they will know the ugly truth about us.
I run SETI@HOME to contribute to the greater good. I would love to be the one whose computer finds the signal that proves that we are not alone, but just being on the team makes me feel good.
My views are that this program is wonderful. By showing some friends SETI@HOME, and discussing with them the possibilities, I have actually swayed a few very
deep-rooted beliefs that g |
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