| Personal background |
|---|
I'm 43. I am a partner in a software/hardware developement firm catering to the Asphalt and Aggregate industry. My job is to design, install, and maintain the electronic systems in our product.
My hobbies are astronomy, computers, off-roading, hiking and camping. I became involved in SETI after reading an article in the Planetary Report. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
Yes, I do think other races exist. However space is a big place! I don't believe we will find ET using current search methods. Unless someone is transmitting (some one close) or had transmitted (someone far) a continuous long term signal the odds we would scan those areas at the time they are (were) transmitting are remote. If we should find a signal that can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be of ET origin the implications would be immense!
Religion as we know it would change forever. The world churches would start by trying to convince us that God had not wanted us to know about ET until we were ready to handle it. Then the churches would find a way to interpret the Bible to accommodate the new knowledge. Acting like the evidence had always been there, but it just needed to be discovered. The churches would have huge turnovers in membership. A large group would leave feeling betrayed by the church and a lot would join out of fear of the unknown.
Our world economy would come alive. Science would receive a huge boost in funding as we tried to find out more about the signal and the beings that sent it. Research into advanced technology for space travel would be renewed. But the biggest boost in spending would probably go to the militaries of each country. Fears of ‘ET invasion’ would drive the military to revive research into defensive space weapons. This would drive fears that the more advanced countries would use the newfound technology to take over the smaller ones. Hopefully the countries would realize that for the first time in history all mankind has a common cause, the defense of our home world against possible attack. Whether or not this would happen is unclear, we seem to have a knack for making the wrong choices.
I’m not in favor of advertising our presence. Is it worth risking ourselves just to find out if other life is out there? We don’t have enough understanding of ourselves let alone the universe to justify this course of action. Lets find out more about our selves first |
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
| Account data |
View |
| Team |
None |
|
