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| Personal background |
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| From 1973 through 1992 I worked in the broadcast radio industry. I then overlapped this first career with my second one from 1989 to present in the printing industy. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I've always had an interest in nature and science. Read a number of Sagan's books ... Pale Blue Dot, Contact, Cosmos, and Demon Haunted World. I'm amuzed by people who feel the heavens were created by god just so humans could have lights in the night sky to look at. It seems to me that whether humanity is Ho-hum common, or utterly insignificant to the universe depends on just how common ETs are. I believe utterly insignificant is closer to the truth and that the universe is teaming with life. Perhaps most are no more advanced than nematodes but, with gazillions of chances, there have to be some bright ones. Hopefully brighter than we are ... but not to the point where they've abandoned radio communications over something better.
I think it is highly unlikely that in my lifetime we will detect intelligent extraterrestrial signals. And, obviously, communications between the two in my lifetime is absurd (I won't live that long). However, I buy Lottery tickets every now and then. I do this even though I know the chances of winning the lottery are very remote ... but it is absolutely impossible to win if I don't buy a ticket. So, even if the odds of detecting intelligent signals are remote, they're certainly worth my computer's unused cycles in the effort.
Peace. Save the Planet, Stop the anti-science regime of BUSH-CHENEY-RUMSFELD
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