Profile: Kathleen Cavanagh

Personal background
I cannot believe I am officially in my thirties! I am glad to be alive during the time we are in. I see that women still have a long way to go be actually be thought of as equal in many areas of life. My career is in Information Technology and I am regularly surprized that there are not more women in this line of work or study. There are more every day, so that is good. Also, here, at this website and of all the users that process SETI workunits, I see mostly males. Where I work, at first I was a little offended that there were not more women, but now I see it as a blessing: I am surrounded by eye-candy :).

I think that if we were to contact an intelligent alien civilization, it would be most certain that they would present a uniformed presence of equality - not seperated by gender or socio-economic status. I also believe they would respect all life and consider all forms of life to have equal importance. They would not sacrifice their planet, wildlife or energy for the sake of luxury/comforts.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Of course extraterrestrial life exists. Who knows when or if we will discover it. I am sure they will discover (or have) discovered us already and probably think we are far too barbarian to deal with yet.

I run SETI@home just in case they have put out a message for us to find, I sure would like to find it. Perhaps there is another civilization out there similar to ours that is just begging to be found. I think by time we find it, they may already be gone, but it sure would be nice to know we are not alone and if they have sent out a message, what can we learn from them.
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