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I'm that blind Canadian chick. You know, the one that paints in watercolours? Oh, i'm sure you've heard of me, I'm terribly famous. Well, I haven't had a spot on Biography yet, so it's possible i'm not all that famous. Anyway, I lost all but a very small central portion of my vision in a stroke a year and a half ago. I was 30, so don't think you're ever too young for a stroke.
When I woke up I was almost completely blind, and set to give up on painting and computering, and pretty much everything else. Except that I'd had the very enduring experience of nearly dying. There is something about feeling life slip away and clawing a hold into that keeps me believing there must be some purpose to all this. That life and I must have some plans for each other that I don't even know about.
I like mysteries, puzzling out how to do the things I want to when they look impossible, or at least highly improbable. Sometimes it's wearing, of course, but I'm painting at very least. Painting well, too. Differently, because I simply can't see the world the way I used to, but still doing work I'm proud of. Life hasn't ended, just changed.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think extraterrestrial life must exist, if simply from the mathmatecial probabilities. I wonder, though, if we would even recognize it. It's funny, we have so many different visions of 'aliens' and yet each vision comes from a human. What if they have senses we've never considered? What if they're sending us vast quantities of information in a form we can't conceive of? It's a brain-teaser, like trying to imagine infinity. How can we imagine the truly alien when all imaginings come from a human perspective?
Mind you, humans can be as alien to each other as sponges to sparrows, and
we share more genetic similarities.
So I guess I run Seti@home because I am truly hoping we will find life out there, something that wants to talk to us. I love the idea of discovering the alien, having made real what I can only barely conceptualize. I like mysteries, and I like the idea of having a small part in delving into this one. |
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