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I have been a sci-fi geek for almost fifty years now. As a kid I was hooked on Captain Video; Tom Corbet, Space Cadet; and any other space show I could find. By the time I was thirteen I had read all the sci-fi in the juvenile and young adult sections and was dragging my mom to the library the check out "Adult" books for me. My father used to worry that I really believed that someday we would go into space. I wish he could have lived to see it come true.
I served 22 years in the Navy, working on weapons systems and computers. Since my retirement I still work for the Navy at the shipyard in Bremerton Wa. I didn't get a home computer until about a year ago. I couldn't see myself sitting in front of a screen all night playing games or cruising porn sites. I'm still a pretty low level user, mainly e-mail, shopping, and travel arrangements. One of the reasons I signed up for SETI@home was to use my computer for something productive. It probably has 22 hours a day when it used to sit idle.
ET is out there. Hopefully one of us will pick up the phone. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Of course ET exists. I don't know what he looks like. Maybe little green men or maybe a lot like us. The discovery of ET will probably come about as a result of something like SETI@home. Most governments consider the search for ET to be a little too exotic for any serious funding so it will be up to some volunteer program like this to make the discovery. As far as possible benefits go I hope they can show us how to live in peace, without destroying the ecology of our planet. Regarding dangers I suppose an Independence Day scenario is possible but I don't believe any civilization advanced enough to travel between the stars is really going to be looking for new worlds to conquer.
We should transmit some kind of beacon. It should include our address and some kind of picture of a man and a woman and a message of Hi, neighbor. Come on over for a visit. Bring the family.
I run SETI@home because my computer sits idle most of the time and I felt that this was something I wanted to be involved in. It would be nice if my computer was the one to find something but I'm a little more realistic than that. I just want to make some small contribution to science. Besides my body when I die. |
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