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| I have worked all over Canada. I spent over six years working in Canada's high arctic. Mostly north of the 80th parallel. I have seen the stars from the Yukon to Greenland. In the cold artic night (no sun at times for three months) the stars go on forever. They say outer space is mostly empty space, if you ever get to see space from the clear crisp air of the north you too will come to believe that this is not so. I have managed weather stations and airports. I have been a Meteorological Inspector. My life and work has taken me all over Canada and just as I have met many, many fine people it is hard to believe that this only happens here on earth. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Time and space are two things that are so huge that they are both hard for anyone to know. With so many billions of stars and so much space in between and with that space getting greater every day it is no small wonder to me that "Contact" has not been made.
However I do believe that someday "Contact" will occur. My only thought is with it taking so much time at light speed for signals to get anywhere how old will the message be and will the senders society still exist.
How do you carry on a conversation with someone who sent it thousands of years ago? What do you tell them? What do you ask? How do we answer a call for help?
Yet I do believe that the actual search is more important than the finding. For one of the key things in being human is the inate desire to know, to try and to learn. The search for ETI is one way we continue to know, try and learn.
It seems to me that not trying is such a sad affair, only by trying will we ever know. And who knows we may just find that the distances between us is not so great after all. |
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