| Personal background |
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| I'm a 60 year retired insurance guy who does some substitute teaching and expert witness work, all of which gives me more time to play with the computer and to run Seti workunits. Hobbies include photography, writing short stories for kids and now and then getting one published, and chasing around Puget Sound in my old 19 foot Reinell runabout or crabbing with a buddy. As a Viet Nam era USAF vet, I'm politically conservative. One of my favorite adages is that, "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are liberal at 30, you have no head." |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| That extraterrestrial life exists is, I believe, an absolute fact given the billions of galaxies in the universe, each containing billions of suns, some with planets. Earthlike planets certainly exist elsewhere, even in this galaxy, and who says life can't exist in a non-earthlike environment? Other life is out there. The real questions are what type of life, how highly has it developed, is it compatible or even understandable by humanity? I believe we will someday discover other life, albeit primitive, probably on a solar planet or moon once we able to put people or instrumentation on the surface. However, until and unless we develope Star Trek-type technology, we may never contact other intelligence. The universe is large enough to encompass hundreds, thousands, of highly developed civilizations widely spaced enough not to meet. I'm a romantic so want to believe that out there somewhere is a great galactic federation of which mankind will one day be a member. |
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