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| Personal background |
Location: Connecticut, United States<br />
Age: Thirty-something<br />
Employer: IBM<br />
Affiliations: National Secretary,
Alliance@IBM (http://www.allianceibm.org/)
I am an I/T Specialist. I have worked for IBM since 1989.
Since 1999, when IBM slashed employee pensions,
I have been active with the
Alliance@IBM and I maintain an Alliance@IBM local chapter
web site, Southbury Alliance
(http://www.HereInTown.com/southburyalliance/),
specifically for employees at
IBM's Southbury, CT, location.
I have always been fascinated by science.
I find the idea of investigating the unknown intriguing.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I do think extraterrestrial life exists.
With the seemingly infinite number of stars we can see
and detect,
and probably many times more than that
which we cannot yet detect,
I think it is improbable that there
is not life elsewhere.
I am not sure transmitting a beacon for others to find
would be practical.
Where would we aim it?
As for what we would send, it probably would not
be a regular human language.
Math is the universal language, so, if we want
those that receive the signal to make any sense of it,
the signal would have
to contain some sort of mathematical Rosetta stones.
Perhaps that signal
could be followed up with samples
of what humans sound like.
I run SETI out of curiosity.
I am sure there is life out there, but the odds
of another world's regular radio traffic being
detectable are low.
Even if the other world has thought
of transmitting a beacon,
the odds are low that they'll have it pointed at us,
and even lower
that there is nothing blocking that beacon.
If a signal is ever detected,
I would like to know that I was able to assist
the search in some small way.
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