Profile: Jeffrey R. Westmoreland

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I definately think life exists elsewhere in the universe, it's almost unimaginable to me that there isn't. I think however, we are more likely to be discovered than to be the discoverers. Weather or not we are able to make contact in any meaningful way I don't know. I don't believe we are being seruptisiously being watched. It is entirely possible that even technologically advanced beings have not mastered travel through deep space, the time/distance barriers might just be too great. It does seem to me that if others had the means and desire to contact us they would have. I wouldn't send out a beacon, the worst case would be that we attract the attention of the predators. I think the benevolent beings are probably doing the same type of searches we are, and will make contact when they find us, and understand us. Perhaps by then we'll be ready to hear them. I thinks it's much more prudent to first loacte them, monitor transmissions, learn what we can, then attempt to make contact.
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