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| I currently live in Broomfield Colorado and work as a network engineer. Colorado is a beautiful state and a great place to live if you are an amateur astronomer. I am currently a member of the Denver Astronomical Society. One of my favorite places to go is Estates Park at night. The view is absolutely stunning. The Hubble telescope has opened up a whole new galaxy for us to discover and explore. I believe astronomy is coming back to the forefront as it was during the days of the pyramids. I like to talk about and read on the topics that surround the field of astronomy. This includes science fiction to Egyptology. Some of the authors I like are Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Paul Laviolette and Robert Doherty. I could list a bunch others but that could take all day. The day TLC and Discovery channel came into my house it is a wonder I watch anything else on television. I believe one of the greatest achievements during my lifetime was when we went to the moon. I wish NASA would start making the provisions for the next step, which is a man on Mars. If mankind is going to go to the stars we must continue to take these initial steps and pull the resources of the world together and not just one nation. Why do I do SETI@home? The search for ET’s is a hard sell, which is why private funding is the only way the project will survive. To look at the positive on this SETI has created a means for which people can come together to express and have a common goal. I am excited about the new dish array, which is under current construction. There is so much to learn with radio astronomy that this project needs to exist. We are discovering new worlds and possible earth like planets with our technology. In the process of learning who knows maybe we will pick up that one unique signal… |
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| Do I believe in extraterrestrials? I like to quote from one of my favorite movies, “Are we the only ones in the galaxy? If we are, that is a pretty big waste of spaceâ€. Mankind, how far back do we go? How long has the Earth been here? Who really built the pyramids? What is religion? What is GOD? How did the universe begin? Well I just asked enough questions to keep men arguing to their grave. The answers to these questions are no one can answer them yet. So is mankind ready to find out that ET is out there and they have the technology to send a signal for us to be able to detect it. I would have to answer No. We as humans can not even figure out what to buy at the grocery store not along dealing with the implications that there is other life other then our own. I think mankind must learn faith and be educated in time just as a child needs time to process learning for example learning how to walk. When mankind is ready, the secrets to the galaxy will be revealed. We live in a technological society, which has a tendency to steer our imagination and thought process in the same direction. If we can build large radio telescopes, receive and send signals, then the discovery of ET will be a radio signal or a beacon on some detectable frequency. We must look at all possibilities because they are endless. Our very own mind may be a radio receiver and we just do not know how to use it yet. The question of sending signals or what should we send already has been answered. Voyager has a gold plate inside representing mankind of today. I do not believe that if we transmit a signal into outer space the Draconian empire will show up in their space cruisers to take over the earth. I beleive SETI is a tool to allow people like myself that believe there is more to the universe then just us to come together. The willingness to look beyond our material ways of life to see that the answers we seek may be here on earth or in the stars. How will we unlock the mysteries? I am not sure but it is exciting to think about... |
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