| Personal background |
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From Albuquerque, NM...53 y/o, male...writer and filmmaker....read voluminously, [LOL,
play chess, listen to music [prefer "classic rock"], walk, ride horses,
watch movies [preferring speculative fiction and fantasy], and, yes * s i g h *
I AM a Star Trek fan from the beginning. Hold professional certifications as
an ordained minister, broadcaster and journalist, hypnotherapist, paralegal,
and medical lab tech.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I feel that extraterrestrial life exists...obviously. We do. And it will be
discovered, I feel, at the precise moment when the species here on this planet
is spiritually mature enough to appreciate the encounter with a civilisation
advanced enough to wish to communicate with us. The benefits from such an
encounter will be to know that we are not alone in the vastness of the universe,
and to learn what other civilisations have done to overcome their problems and
how they have confronted themselves. The danger might come from those here who
feel the chauvanism and prochial isolationism of xenophobia...and who attempt to
encourage others to join them in a misguided attempt "to protect our species"
from "whatever." Honestly, I feel that initial contact with an "extraterrestrial
species" will finds us "humans" on the short end of any exchange.
Absolutely, human beings should transmit beacons in all directions in an all-
out effort to communicate with others in the universe. The message should be
a definitive invitation to visit, and to share with us their knowledge, help us
learn how to grow. We should, also, transmit signals with a representative
sampling of our cultures and heritage...using, perhaps, the Voyager model.
I am running SETI@home in an effort to contribute some little part to the
search, and feel this is the best available way to continue the effort to
find "extraterrestrial intelligence" until an all-out effort is adopted by
Earth's governments or scientific community. I do feel that a program to
publicise the effort to the general public might garner more interest and
support, and possibly many others would participate in the project, as well as
communicating with their political leaders to invest more in a greater project. |
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