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I am a seventy-six year old retiree. I was a utilities maintenanceman at a steel company who held both a gasfitter's and stationary engineer's license. After a heart attack and by-pass surgery in 1984 I attended the University of Toronto and earned a certificate in teaching English as a second language.I taught as a voluteer at The Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture for 10 years.
Being a working Joe never stopped me from thinking or being curious about everything. Reading is still my great passion, although macular degeneration has forced me to listen to books more often than read them. It is hard to get anything but novels in large print format. I play many kinds of cardgames at The Mississauga Seniors' Centre.
I live in Mississauga, Ontario Toronto is one of its suburbs. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that SETI is a necessary task. The knowledge that there are other intelligent beings in the universe would be a great boost to scientific investigation just Dawin's writings were. If we find that we are not alone in this vast universe it would have to change all our superstitions and beliefs that we are the only ones that our gods have made this way. We will probably never be able to communicate with them. By the time their signals reach us they, if they are as stupid as we are, will have destroyed themselves.
It is much easier to run SETi@HOME now that we are using BOINC.
I don't know what BBCode tags are.
William M. Clarke |
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