Profile: chrisreutz

Personal background
I live in San Diego and I work in commercial real estate. I like computer games, Disneyland, and playing guitar. I like taking long walks around town as well.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe extraterrestrial life does exists. Since we exist on this planet, I feel there is no reason to believe that life does not exist anywhere else in the universe. However, I do not think that most of the life out there exists on our same evolutionary track. If we ever receive "intelligent" transmissions, they will have travelled a great distance and time frame to get here. Therefore, those lifeforms may be extinct at this point in time.

I do not believe UFOs or extraterrestrials have ever visited our planet. Such stories make for good science fiction. If they REALLY were circling our planet and they wanted to make contact, they would not waste their time probing farmers out in the midwest. As for crop circles, considering they would have such sophisticated spacecraft to get here, I doubt they would use such primitive navagation concepts such as chopped up corn fields. Heck, even we have GPS devices.

It may not be a bad idea to transmit information from out planet. When we become extinct, others will have information about what we did and who we were. We should transmit literature, music, and samples of entertainment. Most of all, we should let them know about the languages we spoke and the religions that we practiced. More emphasis should be placed on sending the arts as opposed to the sciences. Science and math are literally "universal". Only the arts (i.e. literature, music, fine art, etc.) are particular to any culture.
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