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| My wife and I own a counseling office in Renton, Washington. We see individuals and families for a variety of concerns, and try our best to work with the complexities of insurance. I do love this work. We also train counselors from various masters and doctoral programs. I'm 58 and have two grown sons and a granddaughter, all of them living in interesting places to visit (Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas). I love classical choral music, and if there was any money in it (!!) I'd chuck the helping business and sing in every group I could get into. Seattle has a bunch. Ah, well, that's what a "hobby" is for. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I've always been a science fiction fan. As a kid I read every SF book in the juvenile and adult sections of our local library, and eventually got Mom to drive me to a much bigger library in San Bernardino — well before inter-library agreements, much less computerized card catalogs or Amazon.com. Somehow I was allowed to check out books there! I've always thought that there must be life of some kind "out there," but have wondered if looking at the stars is too literal and our first task is to recognize what other life could really be. Thinking about the earth as an organism is thoroughly intriguing. Well, SETI looks at the stars, and I hopped on to experience the ride. I also walk the earth.
I think our feeble attempts to communicate, beacons, CDs and such, will not place us in any greater danger than we already are. Another life powerful enough and interested enough to travel here will already know about us. I laughed when we sent music and speeches to greet aliens. What could they possibly make of that? Yet, what else could we send? Even number sequences have an arbitrary starting point.
I run SETI on my computer because it is just cool — much better than fish. Am I going to be the one to find ET (if ET exists in a detectable form)? No, but I'm part of an aggregate looking, and that is also cool.
I'm curious what awaits this huge body of linked computers once we've scanned the universe several times. I'm not the scientific thinker, but many out there are ... what's up? You have my attention. |
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