| Personal background |
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I am a science teacher at Model Secondary School for the Deaf at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. I set
up SETI on most my 8 classroom computers because it's a great conversation starter with my students, who are fascinated with the beautiful graphics, as well as the thought of being involved with the search for extraterrestrial life. The graphics raise all sorts of questions about the analysis of the data, the gathering
of the data, how much there is, and how much time it is taking to analyze it. Usually the conversation goes from there to many other issues and questions about life in
the Universe.
Here is a little page about myself...
http://sci.gallaudet.edu/Mary/msebio.html |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Having been involved with science education for 30 years and involved in many wonderful programs, I find the
simple act of installing SETI on my classroom computers
to be one of the easiest ways to get students thinking about some of the larger questions in life. For myself,
I love being involved with the shared data analysis.
I'm a scientist at heart. SETI gives me an opportunity
to be involved with the larger scientific community and a sense of true exploration. Thank you SETI@Home for a great distributed computing project!
Certainly anyone who looks at the numbers has to
suspect that there is indeed life in the Universe other than ourselves. However, I also think that the numbers indicate that there's not a lot of chance of us making contact with other intelligent life forms. At our
present level of understanding the time and distances involved with finding each other (i.e. other life forms sufficiently evolved technologically) present a
formidable barrier. I suspect that the way it works is
that is a protective barrier. How would the people of
the world really DEAL with contact? The world is not ready. We still have a substantial number of people in
the USA, the world's leading nation, who do not accept
the fact of evolution! How could they be expected to
react when faced with the ultimate evidence of it. By
the time Earth's people solve the problems of space and time, maybe society in general will be ready to face the larger truths. Meanwhile, I wonder if we will find it within ourselves to stay the course. It sure looks like we're heading for self destruction through environmental degradation long before we make any world-wide transition to higher levels of awareness.
I am so curious about what forms life could take, how pervasive it is, how it is connected with the workings
of the physical universe, what pattern is. I feel
certain we will find some evidence of life as close as
our own solar system. I hope it happens in my life time. |
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