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| Personal background |
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| At 5 or 6 years old, I was lucky enough - thanks to a professor who thought the first step on the moon was a significant one for humanity - to see the event on the classroom tv. It helped me have a life long interest, as an amateur, in sciences and space exploration. People like Carl Sagan, Arthur C Clarke, Stephen J Gould and (when I can follow his train of thoughts) Krishnamurti had and continue to have a strong influence on how I perceive our role in this extraordinarily rich and unlikely universe. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It was by pure luck that I wondered, on it's first official starting date back in may 1999, what was happening to this astounding project - SETI@home - I had read about a few months before in a scientific magazine. Needless to say, I immediately subscribed as a participant on the same day, after a visit on a search engine.
Such a project appeared to me very exciting not only because it was science in which scientists were welcoming the collaborative participation of the public, but also because this is exactly the kind of activity capable of putting the lives of so many people back in a healthier, broader perspective, beside teaching the basics of the scientific method to the general public.
Furthermore, although the thought of us being alone as a technological civilization seems rather ridiculous in such an enormous universe, SETI research can only lead to positive conclusions, whatever are its findings: if we were to be the only intelligent life form to exist, wouldn't our planet - and all its animal and vegetal species, its biosphere - be infinitely precious ? And if we were not to be alone, could we continue to justify anthropocentrism and its usual consequences that are exploitation, dilapidation and discrimination ?
Regards,
Pierre A Renaud (PAR1138)
Montreal, Canada
http://par1138.cjb.net
http://www3.sympatico.ca/yendred/seticpu.htm
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/view_profile.php?userid=73691
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/results.php?userid=73691
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/view_profile.php?userid=776
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