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Personal background |
Name:Â Del Gordon
Age:Â 43
Occupation: Â Software Engineer, TRW
 Working on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Hobbies/Interests: Â Mountain hiking, astronomy, computers, software, networking,
graphics, UNIX, mountains, travel, art, literature, philosophy, music, science fiction, photography, space exploration, SETI, Internet, truth, wisdom, vegetarian cooking, finding errors in ASCII charts.[/b]
URL: http://personal.riverusers.com/~gordon/
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Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I think extraterrestrial life does exist. We might find some type of life under the ice of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Maybe there are some microbes left around the polar caps of Mars.
Whether the extraterrestrial life is intelligent is another matter entirely. Finding any type of extraterrestrial life will be an important discovery for the field of biology.
Finding intelligent extraterrestrial life will be the most important discovery in the history of humanity. I think we will come in contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life eventually, it just may take another few years, decades, centuries, or millenia. For my own sake I hope it happens in my lifetime. The benefits are that humanity may finally come to understand that we are more alike than we are different. Perhaps we can finally put a stop to the endless wars and bloodshed that has plagued our species for its entire history. Maybe people will stop fighting over their primitive belief systems, i.e., religion, and awaken to the larger reality that science offers. The dangers are that the extraterrestrial life is not peaceful. What if they want Earth for its water? What if we look like food to them, and they're hungry?
Yes, we should transmit beacons. Why not, our electromagnetic signals are being transmitted out haphazardly anyway. The information should say that we think we are intelligent, and that we do not want to be food, and oh, by the way, do they know of any good water planets nearby.
I run SETI@home because it's exciting to take part in a project that could make that most important discovery in the history of mankind--intelligent extraterrestrial life. I also think the project is an interesting experiment in computer science and distributed computing--supercomputers for the masses. Keep up all the good work. |
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