Profile: Tom Brinckman

Personal background
I am a 45 year old IT professional and also Trade qualified painting contractor I live in Boondall, Queensland, Australia. Was born in Amsterdam Holland in 1956. I enjoy virtually anything to do with computers and enjoy jetskiing fishing and camping. Have been interested in Alien civilizations ever since 1969 when my family and our neighbours were talking to each other over the fence, when at about 6:30 to 7:00pm we noticed what we thought was a sattelite till it started moving in paterns that one of ours doesn't for around probably a minute before shooting across the sky at a phenominal rate and vanished, then three days later my father came from the creek in our back yard (we had 5 acres then) and said he had found a spot where he thought a lot of animals had slept, it was a perfect circle in the middle of a large area of bullrushes squashed flat like a 10' radius bowl had been placed down.
So ever since I have read everything I could find on UFO's and sightings, and naturally thought s@h was not a bad idea as well. A little narrow minded hoping to scan on a frequency that we expect any intelligent life to use but with limited resources and no help from the aliens as to what we should use well we have to start some where :)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
To think we are the only ones is pretty closed minded as the universe is infinte, unfortunately from what I have read of our own exploration in the past I don't think our first contact will be a friendly one, mainly for the reason most races that explored were after more land or riches and the other civilizations they came across didn't fair so well eg:- native Americans, Australian Aboriginals and also Africans to name a few. Those first explorers were more advanced and so called more intelligent but that didn't help much did it so why would we expect our first real contact to be any different friendly at first and then as above.
Should we invite them well personally I don't think so but I have little faith in human behaviour , so one either the Aliens wouldn't be safe or two we wouldn't. Think about why a more intelligent race would be exploring the universe, would it be for pleasure very unlikely, would it be for greater knowledge as scientists allways say, or would they be like our own Missionaries forcing there belief on so called savages (us) not very promising out comes from our own history are there. But I am really an optimist and can only hope we have learned from our mistakes in the past and hope that any intellectual superiors would have learnt from theres a lot sooner.
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