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| Personal background |
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| Currently I teach computer science courses at Dine College on the Navajo Reservation in the United States. I've lived in enough locations to know the great benefit in contacting other cultures. By visiting other cultures, we may discover solutions to problems for which our own culture has not discovered solutions. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The question of the existence of extraterrestrial life is open ended. Just because the existence has not been proven so far does not mean the question is answered. The only way to answer this question is to keep searching. Because of the importance of question, we should be willing to keep searching for hundreds of years. If it turns out we inhabit the only planet in the universe with life, this places a lot of responsibility on our species to mature and learn to live with our fellow humans in peace because the universe is depending on us. If the universe is teaming with life, then our responsibility is lessened. If we destroy ourselves, perhaps no one will notice.
Observing exploring behavior on earth, it is usually the culture with the more aggressive personality that reaches out and makes contact with the culture with the more passive personality. Remember what happened when European society reached out and contacted the culture of the Americas? If we are found by an extraterrestrial civilization, I would expect trouble in the form of a life or death struggle to maintain our sense of worth and value here on earth. If we find other life first, perhaps we may survive the encounter.
I propose that the thing that makes a human being human and different from the animals is the ability to know and love God. This ability does not depend on the number of arms or legs or the color of skin. If an extraterrestial being with the ability to know and love God turned out to look like a giant jellyfish, then I would be forced to accept that being as my brother. I could do no other thing. |
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