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Located in San Diego but shortly moving to Portland, Oregon, I'm a security software consultant for a top 5 software firm, where I've consulted, demonstrated, & implemented security products for auto industry, government, healthcare, & banking customers throughout the US.
Past work includes sys admin, military intelligence, and aircraft maintenance.
My hobbies are devouring materials on information security, IT, & history (esp. intelligence & military); homebrewing (admittedly 3 yrs absentee :( ); spending time with my 2 toddler girls; and "pissing off the clergy", or at least their followers. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Answer to Q1: as soon as I heard of it a couple years ago
" Q2: success would mean the most profound discovery in human history
" Q3: in line with the "if not it'd be an awful waste of space" theory, there has to be. There just can't not be other life out there. Even statistically it's almost a truism.
Will we discover them (if we haven't already)? Probably. Eventually. In my lifetime? Don't think so.
Yes, we should do everything we possibly can without bankrupting any societies to find ET life.
The benefits & dangers are obvious: depends on (1) the ET & (2) how the average human lemming reacts. Is the ET bent on 'clearing the way for an intergalactic freeway' (support Towel Day!!!), or is it peaceful? From our side, 'a person is smart but people are stupid' is an appropriate starting point. The biggest danger is all the Jesus freaks going ballistic with an intergalactic crusade based on some BS reasoning (or lack thereof) that since ET's not mentioned in the Bible it must therefore be an agent of the Devil (capitalized purely for incendiary effect ;> ). After all, more human blood has been spilled in the name of religion than anything else. |
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