Profile: Laserjohn

Personal background
Laser engineer from Bay area of California. Would like to see the government lab look into using magnetics and light to use as propulsion rather than chemical propulsion. I started on my own but then I later joined the group of the CorvetteForum. My loves are (nightime)sitting on the top of my house and looking through my telescope and thinking, dreaming, and (daytime)of course classic corvettes.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it is statistically possible that life exists somewhere else in this great universe. We will have to find ways around certain "laws" in physics if we ever want to truly expore outside our solar system.

At the current time, concerning the point of will human contact with E.T.'s, I think that they will find us first.

The danger is as always the government will want to either control or destroy whatever comes to visit. One religious aspect of such a discovery is also prevalent, if we are not alone in the universe, then "organized religion" as a whole becomes academic. The movie "Contact" with Jody Foster is a pretty accurate account of what would probably happen.

I run Seti@home to do my humbly small part in the process of locating a possible ET.

I simply hope that if in fact ET does come to visit, they visit a humble scientist or astronomer, rather than a self-serving diplomat or politician. I can hear the re-election speech now, " ..and in addition to my other accomplishments, ET decided that I was the one to visit first..."
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