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My name is Jay Goldlust. I'm a 22 year old Journalism student at Columbia College Chicago. I transfered to Columbia after studying Geology at Indiana Univ. focusing on extaterrestrial geology and interplantary mining. The coupling of hard sciences and journalism is a dream come true for me to be pursuing. SETI has long be a program I've followed and respected - its cause out-reaches that of relgion and science by prompting the most fundamental question predating both notions of religion and science. By no means am I religious...but:
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful an his children smart." --H.L. Mencken
As for science - another quote may suffice to relfect my notions taken from Ideas and Opinions (New York: Crown Publishers, 1954):
"The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole." --Einstein
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| The mathematical probability of extraterrestrial life somewhere in the universe is undoubtedly to the extent of fact. Given the expanse of the cosmos, even FTL travel would effectively be a non-issue prompted by the sheer number of systems in the galaxy...let alone the universe. If we were to detect an extraterrestrial radio signal, which could happen today, tomorrow, next week or in the next millennia, the fundamental foundations of human existence would be shattered. The irony of human ego coupled with the human fear of being the only "ones" in the universe could have devastating impacts on society. No doubt, the advocates of SETI would love this finding; I included...but, for the vast majority of people, even technologically refined Americans would shudder in horror in an Orson Wells fashion, especially the religious ones. Jay Gould's NOMA theory of religion and science would ultimalety fuse together! All in all - I just hope we detect something of real interest for Sir Arthur C. Clarke's sake. I think E.T. owes Clarke at least that. I've had the pleasure of meeting the fellow in Colombo, Sri Lanka a few years ago and I can say he more than anyone else would LOVE the discovery of aliens. |
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