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| Personal background |
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Who is Jetgraphics?
It isn't a speedy artist.
Years ago, while working for a certain large computer company, whose initials are nicknamed Big Blue, I entered my name in the spell checker. Jeff = Jet, Ganaposki = Graphics.
Computers, Astronomy, Science and Imagination are but a few of my interests, aptly suited for the SETI@Home project. Having both a mix of 'hard science' and 'soft science' interests, as well as spare cpu cycles, I feel like I am making a significant contribution.
My current occupation and vocation is a spiritual and educational ministry. I am involved with research into history, politics, law, and morality, as well as metaphysical concepts dealing with a multidimensional consciousness (spirit) interfacing with a serial sequential event processor (brain).
Though some feel that there's no way to empirically define good or evil, I find that it's simple to define: morality is survival via harmless activity. Society and religion and law define survival via harmful activity, or worse, irrational harmful activity, as evil.
All law is the protection of property rights, all else is policy, and policy requires consent.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Regarding intelligent life not native to this planet, I suspect that there are multitudes of life forms.
I think that Earth has already been visited, and perhaps, influenced by non-native life forms.
Perhaps, the influence of these beings is recorded in the folklore and mythology of mankind. In many ways, the reported 'miracles' attributed to evolved humans may represent the advanced biological technology that is the result of friendly interests of our neighbors.
Of course, there is always a risk of contacting intelligent life that is not human. One cannot presume that the recipients will share benign curiousity about our species. Worse, they may feel that we represent a threat to their survival and species expansion. And someday, when we expand our civilization beyond our terrestrial surface, we might impinge upon the survival of other sentient beings, accidentally or by design. Hopefully, we will not do harm.
In the meantime, I hope this enterprise will bear fruit, if not evidence of another sentient species, at least advance the knowledge of the physical universe.
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