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I am a PHP programmer at the moment, but a hardware technition by trade.
I first became interested in SETI when I was very young.
My grandmother worked for NASA at the time. She brought books home with pictures of the moon. I watched a home video tape they made while on a trip to 'The Holy Lands' with Jim Irwin in which he talks about some of his experiences.
Over the past few years, my wife and I have been trying to save up to get a really nice telescope. Not easy though..two kids in college and both of us working full time..
We have a cheap Wal-Mart special that we take out into the driveway.. usually once a week weather permitting.
Between the unsteady scope, rotation of the Earth, wind, cloud cover and the neighbors porch light we have a pretty hard time, but we have fun.. So far was have seen Saturn and Jupiter. They were really small though.. we saw rings around Saturn but very low detail.
We wanna see more Messier stuff.. M31 and such..
The Search for ET is one of the most nobel and important quests on the planet in my mind. (The others being non-forced world peace and unity, anti-gravity research, traveling faster than light (say C100 without causing physical and/or mental damage to our fragile structures.), and of course a source for self-perpetuating energy that doesn't destroy anything, but is recycled effeciently so that no amount of energy is lost.. only recycled.. (as opposed to trying to amplify old energy to account for loss)...basically breaking every physics law we have..hehe..
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I do believe ET life exisits...yes, even intelligent life.. probably not 'humanoid' as we know it. (two arms, two legs etc.)
Just by looking at the varity of life on this planet I can see all sort of possibilities.. praying mantis, whales, bacteria, spiders, trees, canines, etc..
all kinds of weird looking stuff.. but mostly adapted for survival on Earth..having appropiate tempature regulation limits, gravity, environment, breathing 'air', color-changing to hide from predators, etc..
Other planets will have different gravity, atmosphere which may or may not contain oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, (reguardless of what scientist say, i dont think these components are the ONLY configuration for life.. just on THIS planet.. for all we know, Jupiter could be a planet with intelligent methane bubbles living in the center. or maybe somewhere else, gallinium rocks are intelligent.
It doesn't make me wrong, just ignorant.. and who knows, ignorant people have been later proven correct in the past..
I think it is possible for us to make the discovery first, but more likely that we will be discovered by others before then. Our planet is relativly young, as is our galaxy..compared..*just think, in a million yrs, Earth will look like the moon or Mars*
True, the International Space Mafia could be waiting to take over and make us all eat green cheese and produce toxic gasses to power their brewery, making Earth the newest bar in town.. but I prefer to 'dream' a little..
What if they are nice guys that just want to help us learn how NOT to blow ourselves up??
I run SETI@home to try to aid in the crunching of all the data that has already been collected. what if the signal we have been waiting for has already arrived and is burried within all the data somewhere?
I LOVE SETI and think it is one of the most important endevours of the human race. (see my profile for the others)
Would lover to write more, but website designers here have wisely set limits, otherwise this would be a novel. :)
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