Profile: Charles J Slater

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Located in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI@home to participate in a potentially important project. I have doubts about any information on intelligent signals ever being released to the public. For example look at the information released by the Bush Admin. and the major media on 9/11 whichs completely ignores major issues raised by competent engineers and scientists. I have zero confidence that our leadership is concerned about anything other than increasing their power and money. Information about life elsewhere, other than say bacteria, might upset the status quo the public might start to see our endless tribal conflicts as just that. Secondly I have read that at least one senior leader of the SETI project publicly scoffs at any UFO reports stating that it is very unlikely that anyone could travel to the Earth. I question the motives of someone who behaves like a medieval Church bishop (or the Kansas state legislature) in public and runs a SETI project
Join the campaign to save the Hubble! I am guessing that the astronauts were aware of the possible dangers to spacefight when they signed up. We paid for the shuttles, let's use them or give them to Europe or someone with a real space program like the Chinese. The Bush regime doesn't have a problem with killing over a thousand U.S soldiers to steal a country but are timid about risking a few volunteer astronauts? As far as risking a shuttle, if they are sitting on the ground they are just expensive junk.
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