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Since I grew up on a farm in Michigan, the clear country sky helped encourage me to take an interest in astronomy and extraterrestrial life from a young age. My earliest recollections of this interest are from kindergarten and grade school, when I visited the library to get books about the planets and UFO sightings. At that young of an age, the accounts of UFO sightings and aliens were terrifying, yet too interesting to ignore.
It's amazing how much our knowledge of the universe has changed in the last 25 years, and I continue to be absorbed by the plethora of new discoveries and theories. What we know for certain is almost more amazing than what I read in science fiction. Sci-Fi is great for generating an interest in space. It makes one think of all the extraordinary things that could be out there. But what we've learned in reality can be more profound simply because it actually exists. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe extraterrestrial life must exist, due to the near-infinite scope of the universe. Disbelief in ET life is ignorant and anthropocentric. The magnitude of space is almost incomprehensible. If life happened to come about on our world, surely the conditions are right on at least one of the other countless worlds to do the same. People seem to think that life on other planets would have to be similar to life on earth - the requirements for certain gasses for respiration, water, etc. I think that view is short-sighted. What's to stop an alien species from breathing argon (or breathing at all?), having no need for water, or having some unimaginable process for obtaining nutrients? I don't think our imaginations come close to concieving what could exist.
Extraterrestrial life always has the potential to be hostile, but given our history as humans I think we are more of a threat to them than they are to us. I think we humans are destined to destroy ourselves with our relentless conquests. One of three scenarios exist. 1) We fail to expand to new worlds, consume everything on earth, and drive ourselves to extinction. 2) We colonize new worlds, giving us a new lease on life, but potentially spread our viral nature to innocent alien species. 3) Hostile aliens commit genocide on us before we have the chance to do it to them.
Just look at the long history of the earth, and what happens whenever two species first come in contact. Any way you look at it, someone or something stands to lose. It's evolution. |
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