| Personal background |
| Hi fellow Seti-zins! I am an fifties-ish, happily married redhead from Pittsboro NC (Just East of Siler City where Andy Griffith went for a night on the town with Barney). I have one little girl Jenna who keeps me busy! My hobbies are astronomy, music, movies, ancient rhythmic languages (like pygmy.. listen to some early Deep Forest CD's), and anything science or science fiction. I love animals (cats, dogs, horses, etc), working the garden, and building things. In fact, I build houses for a living and enjoy the challenges of building homes and integrating them into the environment without destroying it! Some of my happiest time is spent in a hammock under dark skies at night getting lost in the "wonders" above me. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
Does extraterrestrial life exist? Yes. That, to me, has never been the question... In my mind, ET life is any life that was not 'born' of the Earth.. in other words, life not "of" the Earth. Since I believe in God, God is the first ET life because I believe God is living and God was not born of the Earth. Now, does ET life exist outside of God, Yes. Still not the big question. The big question is "when" will we discover it. My guess is that within the next 5-10 years with all the research being done, we will discover something on Mars, either life itself or remnants of long dead organisms. Now when will we discover SETI life (meaning SET-I -- Intelligent life), I think we already have. Mankind just hasn't learned how to recognize it yet. Locked away on a SETI data tape, science logs from years of research, recordings of all sorts of electromagnetic signals, pictures of all spectrums of light is something from a ETI life form. We simply need to learn how to interpret what we have... then we will have a great revelation and realize we have been seeing this for years and never realized what it was. My hope is the benefit of such a discovery will be the unifying force this planet needs to stop hurting each other and live and work for a better tomorrow. The danger is fear and the paranoia that accompanies it.
Do we need a beacon? Not really... ever since the first Radio the Earth has been a radiating beacon of Electromagnetic Radiation... not hard for a 'radio aware' species to home in on. The beacon can't possibly catch up to what has already been radiated.
I run SETI@home because it's there and it's important. I love 'doing my part'. I also do it to honor Carl Sagan who shook my hand one day long ago and made me dream about space and to Gene Roddenberry who captured the idea of a more optimistic future and brought that idea into my home. |
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