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I am a retired Navy Commander and a present president of an electronics company. I have always had a great interest astronomy and space travel. As a member of the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association as a kid looking through the club telescopes at the observatory intellectually stimulated me.
I truly believe that there is intelligent life out there; it is just a question of time before we find it or it finds us.
It is an enormous pleasure to be part of this endeavor. I have high hopes that in time we will discover the most important aspect of our existence, that we are not alone in the universe. That fact will change society fundamentally. I hope I am alive to see it happen.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The universe is vast and it seems planets are common. With hundreds of billions of stars in a galaxy and hundreds of billions of galaxies I am very sure there is a vast assortment of life. How and when we discover it is pure speculation. I would hope it would be sooner than later, at a distance before close up, friendly rather than hostile. How it will actually be is anyone’s guess.
The benefits of discovery will be the stimulation and expansion of the human knowledge base. The hazards cross the spectrum from superior culture contaminating the less developed society to out right being destroyed. I wouldn’t be the slightest surprised if a local group of technological races don’t know of our existence at this juncture. It is hard to speculate because we don’t know anything as a basis to make base our opinions on.
I don’t think transmitting a beacon is a good idea. I don’t see any reason an advanced alien race would be friendly. As a matter of fact, if one watches life at an African water hole you’d note most of the social creatures are herbivores. Only a small minority are meat eaters. I would think the galactic society is made up of mostly plant eaters that might find meat eaters rather threatening and revolting.
I think the SETI program is wonderful. I have been deeply disappointed in our space program and the government’s lack of support for a SETI program. I hope this one has a positive result.
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