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I am a physicist specializing in acoustics but my first love remains cosmology. The shear numbers of stars and the increasingly obvious fact that there are also countless planets to circle them, makes it almost impossible to believe that there is not other life out there. Whether there is (in fact) intelligent life as well remains to be seen, but looks mathematically almost certain for the universe as a whole and almost (but not quite) as certain for our galaxy as well.
SETI represents the best chance our species has within our technological grasp to find the answer to this profound question, and I'm pleased (tickled really) to be able to donate a few of my personal computers to the task of crunching the data being gathered.
My fondest wish is that I can (somehow) live long enough to have the questioned answered--whilst I'm still around to be appropriately awed.
D. T. Hazelrig
Madison, Alabama (USA)
P.S. Besides, I have a huge bet with my brother-in-law that we will and I won't let him out of this hole I dug for him by anything as sleazy as dying...
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1. I answered above.
2. I also answered above but will add that I consider the project an extremely important one, with the potential to change everything about both the planet we live on, and every one of our human institutions. The affect on society of successfully identifying a extraterrestrial technological civilization will radically alter our view of the universe--but more importantly, about ourselves and our philosophical/religious beliefs. For the first time in human history we will be forced to take an "eternal" view, that is, learn to ignore the imaginary lines we've drawn on maps to artificially separate us into homogenous groups of "different" people, and come to recognize universally that we are NOT Americans, Chinese, or other fictions. Accept the reality that we are one species, one people and our best hope of survival into the indefinite future requires of us to cast off illusions of "race" and identify ourselves as earthlings.
3. My only suggestion is to carry on.
D. T. Hazelrig
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