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| Personal background |
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| Originally born in Britain, lived in the Caribbean from age 7, moved to the USA to attend college in Washington DC. BS in Computer Systems Engineering, and MS in Computer Science. Hobbies include music, both listening and playing (drums, bass, electronic music, sound engineering, etc.). Currently working for Verizon. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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As a species, we ought to go exploring in the benign ways that we can - including transmitting a beacon. We don't need to send much - just the fact that we have such a beacon is information enough for any recipient to respond to. However, I don't think that we are likely to get a response, although I am quite certain that extraterrestrial life does exist.
God didn't create humans as the only intelligence in the cosmos; so even discounting responses from the omnipotent deity of your choice, there are other similarly limited beings (enough like us, anyway) out there. In a sense, we don't need to be discovered - we were never alone to begin with, whether you believe in angels (fallen or otherwise) or in flying saucers. However, we just aren't going to be receiving any communication from our peers, because we have effectively been quarantined. The current state of humanity is such that we have severe difficulty acting intelligently on the basic behavioral guidelines available to us, and so any recipients of our signals know that we are neither ready to go visiting nor to receive visitors, in an extra-terrestrial sense.
I run SETI@Home because I am curious, and support benign curiosity. Like any scientist, a 'find' would give me a chance to refine my theories above. I believe in extra-terrestrial life *because* I believe in God.
I also prefer that my idle CPU cycles go to good use, and think that it makes for a cool screen-saver :-) |
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