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I am a 67 year old retired electrical engineer. I was born in the UK, spent 6 years in the RAF and worked for Nortel Networks in Canada since 1974. From 1968 to 1974 I worked for what is now Britich Aerospace in Bristol, UK. Hobbies are golf, gardening and maintaining my ancient (by North American standards) farmhouse in a habitable condition. I am also researching solar heating and trying to design a system which will pay for itself in less than 10 years and provide all my heat and electricity. The heat is easy, the electricity is not.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I certainly do think life exists elsewhere than on Earth. Since it thrives almost everwhere on Earth, including many seemingly unlikely places such as deep underground and in hot volcanic vents under water it appears to be so persistent that I find it almost impossible to think that we are alone. I have no idea what form this life might take. Probably any possible form exists wherever it can. We may discover it today or in 100 years. I hope it is soon (I am already 67 years old and getting a bit impatient!).
I suppose there are dangers involved in making contact with alien, intelligent life but I suspect the main danger would be to them, whoever and wherever they are. Human beings often do not deal well with each other if there are relatively minor differences, such as religious beliefs. How we would react to life very different, perhaps much more advanced, from ourselves worries me more than a little. There might also be the question of how they might react to our evidently inherent savagery. Some careful "First Contact" procedures clearly must be developed and carefully followed when the auspicious day finally arrives.
The decisions regarding sending information about us made when the Voyagers were sent into space always seemed good to me. I believe we should continue doing this by any feasible means.
Letting my computer do a little to help the SETI program seems to me a good use of an otherwise unused resource. I tried to also run a weather modelling research programme but gave it up as SETI was slowed down a great deal. SETI comes first for me! |
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