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I was born in 1959, so whatever year it is when you're reading this, you can figure out my age. :) About 1970, in Indiana I saw 5 UFO's for about 20 seconds. They flew in a 5-pattern (one in the center and 4 surrounding the center, as if on the corners of a square). They were round and there was a unique indentical marking on each of them on the bottom side. Browsing the web for UFO sites, I was quite surprised to see a picture of exactly the same type of UFO I had seen, complete with the marking on the bottom. People who have never seen a UFO think I'm crazy when I tell them about this, but those who have seen unusual occurances are more likely to believe me. I don't know if these things were from another planet or not, all I can tell you is they were round and made no sound I could hear. Aliens? Secret Government airships? I don't know, but I know what I saw.
I am very into computers. For computing at work I do web site programmning and design, network management and server management. For computing at home, I experiment in artificial intelligence programming and love computer games (no Doom or carry-a-gun-and-shoot-people kind of games for me; SimCity, King’s Quest, Outpost and Empire Earth are more my fare). Oh, and I run SETI@home. ;)
I've finally decided to go to college and get a degree (something in technology of course). It’s nuts that 25 years of computing experience won’t open any new doors these days… |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Opinions about SETI:
1. Yeah, I think extraterrestrial life exists. Will we find anything larger than a virus or a bacteria? Will SETI discover signals from an intelligence race somewhere out in the Universe? I hope we find something out there to converse with. I don't think we can imagine the possible benefits nor the possible dangers except to say it will be really good or really bad. I doubt it would be only a ho-hum event.
2. I think we are doing a good thing now just listening for a signal. We should try to find out if there is another intelligence out there (chances seem to be better that there is than that there isn't). However, short of ET landing on the White House lawn and stepping out to say, "Hi!" I don't think we should actively pursue contact. If we are contacted first, well, what can we do about that but react to it (hopefully well)? As for signaling first, well, good grief, we can't get our act together on this planet to be peaceful and protect our own homeworld from human greed and stupidity, we really have no business pushing ourselves on another civilization yet. When we grow up and mature as a species, then ya, let's go out and help out others or just talk and have fun if they're up for that, but we're not ready to make the first step yet. There's too much to do here at home.
3. I run SETI@home because I want to help find out if there is an intelligence out in the Universe intentionally or unintentionally sending signals our way. If we're able to actively search for extraterrestrial signals, then we've reached a time in our history when we should do this. If we are able to determine that "something else" is out there we should learn what we can from that. It might help us, but it could also end us...but then again, we're kind of on the path of self destruction anyway, so let's hope for the best, that finding a signal will help us.
My only suggestion is that the human race should start behaving now as if there were another intelligence out there. |
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