| Personal background |
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| 54 year old (but not that old) who is a paranormal researcher and director of a small (170 member) international UFO research organization. Louisiana resident (Lafayette based) gourmet chef (Cajun and Creole) and publisher of more than 20 cookbooks. Former hockey player (yes, Louisianians DO know how to skate on ice) and nationally recognized portrait artist. Graduate of Tulane University and a believer in the impossible. Looking forward to the wonders of this new century (surprised I made it this far) and enjoying the freedom to dream. Anyone wants to scribble a note and exchange ghost stories or whatever, I'm at tscruffy_esq@hotmail.com |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Numbers run the universe. Perhaps God was an accountant in His former life . . . . But by simple math, if Earth is the only inhabited planet ANYWHERE, then the universe really IS a lonely place to live. Will we "discover" extraterrestrial life? In our lifetime - no. Someday? If the "powers that be" don't blow the place apart, maybe. I don't think the "discovery" is as important as the dream. Sure, we all believe in "something" but we would probably be diaspointed in what might actually be found . . . .
SETI doesn't propose "answers" but it does keep the "question" in front of us:
Is anybody home? Did "ET" dial the correct area code? What the h@*# might happen if "ET" answers . . . .
Personally, I don't think it matters much. In my lifetime I don't expect an answer. Given the distances involved, if we're talking radio wave communications, nobody will be around to respond to answers we might get back to questions asked 50 - 100 years before! But there IS life out there. Want proof? Ask yourself this simple question, "Why are YOU running the SETI program?"! If you don't believe that there's a chance of encountering "something" then you're wasting your time. (And I know that 99.995% of the people in the world aren't interested in doing ANYTHING that won't get them SOME recognition . . . .)
Believe. That's all you have to do.
I don't need a radio-telescope to tell me that there is somebody "out there" . . . but I'd like to know why they aren't answering our call . . . . |
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