| Personal background |
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| I am a 56 year old programming instructor who enjoys reading, flying, guitar, and watching the sky. I have worked as an electronics technician and programmer analyst for RCA, Digital Equipment, Standard & Poors, CitiBank NA, Videographic Systems of America, and Pennco Tech. I am currently attending Camden County College where I persue a degree in Computer Science, and I have recently been inducted into Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of two year colleges. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The universe and Time are too large for there NOT to be other life (extra-terrestrial), but the fastest speed known is still way too slow for most contemporary sentient species to interract with each other.
That largeness and the universal speed limit (300Mm/s) prevent contemporary sentient species from encountering each other. The problem isn't only one of distance, its also one of time. We may never discover sapient extraterrestrial life, but the longer we look, the better our chances are.
A more dangerous situation occurs if extraterrestrial life finds us first. Despite our society's current (professed) sophistication, an encounter with any truly advanced extra solar civilization on their terms would utterly destroy homo-sapiens' fragile and egocentric self image. We are not technologically, spiritually, artistically, morally, or in any other way, prepared to meet them. But, it CAN happen!
The Universe is a place with enough time and space available where anything that can happen, will, inevitably, happen. |
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