Profile: John Beatson

Personal background
I'm 49. I work on an Underground Railway system in Glasgow, Scotland.
While working I don't see the sky, stars or any form of natural light.
I think its neat that while I'm working 'Underground' my computer at home is looking to the stars.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I've always been a fan of science fiction. Maybe because of that I can't believe that we are the only sentient live form in the universe. If we are what a waste of space [I think someone else said that first].

The SETI project has always interested me, in its mission to reach out to the stars. To maybe communicate with others, who live in a different ‘society’, governed by different rules. If only our cultures on earth could take the principles, and start to listen for each other in the same way as the SETI project hopes to do with others in the stars.

I don’t think we should send a beacon. On the surface this sounds like a very natural think to do. We would like to communicate with others. But I think we should listen first. Making assessments of them, and then thinking on what they would think of us. Sending a beacon takes control of the contact from us and gives the initiative to them. We might find ‘undesirables’ in space. We certainly have enough of our own.
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