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| I am a pre-practicum Earth Science teacher (degree in Geology, working on another in Education). Born and raised in Texas, resident of Massachusetts since '97, married since '01. I read a great deal, mostly speculative fiction ... play a lot of video games ... watch a lot of television. I know how to play flute, and I canoed once, and am trying to work up the ambition to turn both of those into more frequent activities ... even actual hobbies :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I grew up reading mostly fantasy; in college, read a great deal of SF. My exposure to speculative fiction has helped me to develop a strong belief in the imagination, the creativity, and the abilities of the human mind ... SETI@home is a shining example of all three, in terms of both its aims and its technique: the exploitation of the power of voluntary distributed computing may well have constituted a paradigm shift in information technology. I am excited to be able to contribute.
I don't know, of course, whether ET life exists, but the odds sure are for it... Less likely are the possibilities that ET life exists contemporaneously with us, in a detectable, accessible location, and that ET life will be sufficiently similar in terms of the goals and techniques of interstellar communication that we will ever be able to establish meaningful contact with it/them. But since when has a slim chance been not worth pursuing? It is human nature to explore. It is human nature to try to make contact. I can only hope that those other parts of human nature ... the drives to exploit resources beyond recovery, to remake the unfamiliar in the image of our comfort zones, to respond to ambiguity with defensiveness and even hostility ... will not carry well into our experiences beyond this globe.
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