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I am a 72 year old consultant to a graphic arts business. My hobbies are watercolor painting, reading and involvement with a Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (church). I edit our Fellowship's newsletter and am the webmaster for its web site. I have three children and four grandchildren. I am a 1954 graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology (Now Carnegie-Mellon University).
I have been a Macintosh owner for many years and ran my first 70 work units for SETI on a 400mHz G3 iMac. On May 3rd, 2002, I replaced the G3 with a 700mHg G4 iMac.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Whether ET life exists is unknowable until ours or some other effort is successful. I believe that it is not productive to take a position one way or the other.
Nevertheless, it is an essential part of being a fully functioning human being to be curious and to do everything possible to advance one's own knowledge and the collective knowledge of our race. Mankind's explorations have repeatedly yielded unexpected benefits, frequently in areas not suspected at first to be related to the original quest.
Transmitting a beacon from Earth seems to me unnecessary. If there indeed are intelligernt being in the universe, they will not likely need a specific beacon to infrom them of our presence. There are multitudes of radio signals originating from Planet Earth already.
I run SEIT@home because I believe that it is a worthwhile effort to move human cooperation towards two admirable goals: the advancement of human knowledge and the cooperation of large numbers of individuals in many countries in working together towards an desirable and peaceful end. |
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