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| Personal background |
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| I am a doctoral candidate in Psychology and the President of my undergraduate co-ed fraternity's alumni association. I live in Shorewood, WI (near Milwaukee) and am an NIH Researcher into speech communications and the psychology of speech perception and production. I ultimately want to teach at the college level and continue my research. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Certainly extraterrestrial life exists. It is the ultimate in egoism to think that we are the only intelligence in the universe. We may find evidence of its existence, either through activities like SETI@Home or perhaps, if we ever actually reach the stars, we may find it in person. It is highly likely that we may never find it, or that it will either already be in decline or still ascending the long ladder of evolution.
Should we transmit a beacon? It's a hard call, since we might attract unfriendly intelligences, but perhaps we should chance it. We could transmit messages of peace and goodwill in several languages and hope for the best. Didn't work for the native American, but maybe space-faring alien intelligences would be a bit less rapacious and a bit more enlightened than the Europeans of the latter half of the second millenium.
Our team runs SETI@Home, in part to be a part of a worldwide project. The fact that we are participating with millions of other people from around the globe in a cooperative scientific endeavour is quite exciting. There is also a bit of competition between the members of the team, trying to outdo each other either in terms of speed, quantity, or accrued years of effort. We also run the project in the hopes of being some of those who actually DO find signs of intelligence out there! I mean, c'mon! That would look great on a curriculum vita: June 2003: Co-discoverer of the Quagaards. |
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