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I am a 56 year old Computer support manager with the municipal government of a medium sized city in the southwestern USA. I have been a science fiction buff all of my life and was very excited when I discovered the Setiathome project in October of 1999. A lot of Yesterday's science fiction has a way of becoming tomorrows 'just business as usual'.
I participate in setiathome because it is a great opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to an important scientific project.
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I am certain that life exists elsewhere in the universe. I think it is highly probable that some of that life is at least as intelligent as we are and just as curious about the universe. Whether any of that life is sufficiently like us to make possible a cultural, scientific and/or commercial relationship with us, remains to be seen. I sincerely hope and pray that no other life will be enough like us so that a relationship with us would include warfare or other acts of domination and destruction, but who can say at this point.
For that reason I belive we (mankind) should intensify our study of the cosmos, significantly increase our level of investment in basic scientific research, and do nothing more than we already are to attract attention to ourselves. I cannot help but wonder whether a life form intelligent enough to sort out the RF transmissions we have been making for the last century or so, would contact us, given what we are doing to the earth and to each other.
If mankind is to be around long enough to matter in the time frame of the universe, we need to find a way to live in pease with each other and to detect and fend off the interstellar objects that periodically collide with the earth. |
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