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Age: 37
Work: Software development
My professional background is electronics and computers educated to degree level. I am not a competitive career minded person although I hate seeing things done badly. I HATE seeing the wrong people are in the wrong place. And I hate FAVOURITISM and NEPITISM. These two things are the corner-stones of disconnection and eventual evil in this world. Truth (like nature herself) is cold and hard but fantastic if you can live at ease with it.
My motivations are scientific/imaginative in nature although I am motivated by anything if it needs doing. I do hate REPETITIVE automaton type work, which I think computers were meant to perform. Although sometimes when I have a sore head from a heavy previous night, I am glad for the simplicity of it.
I knew about SETI from sci-fi book and films. But I didn't know about SETI@Home until a work friend and emails were ending up in front of me about some enthusiasts who were trying to get SETI@Home to be a standard screen saver on work computers. That never came off, but it got me interested. I learnt about SETI from a websearch and then downloaded the client for my home computer. I hope my small contribution helps out!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have seen some gravy trains of pointless projects in my time, and this is NOT one of them. I think life is out there, but the probability that it is near us and at relatively the same level of technological development, I think is remote.
If there is some galaxy spanning society out there, I think they are communicating using different faster-than-light means than simple Radio. However, that does not mean they cannot hear us (as a nostalgic hobby maybe), and may want to communicate with us just out of fun. I do not think we should expect much from it though. Except confirmation that we are not alone - which I think is a pretty arrogant assumption to make anyway!
I look forward to hearing that first chat.
One point I would like to make is that the evolution of intelligence seems kind of strange to me. Ultimately it is just a survival tactic which just happens to have provided us with self awareness and the ability to cooperate. However, as for it being the ultimate survival attribute a species can have, I am dubious. I think intelligence/self-awareness brings its own range of problems, which as a species we are wading through with wars and conflicts. I cannot help thinking though that there is something missing to us. We are not complete yet.
Or maybe some attribute of freedom is being withheld to maintain stability. If that is the case then the total power technological progression may bestow to us may well be something we as a species can never fully engage with. Because we are just too unstable. If that is the case, then we must learn to accept this and take our place, not at the top of the evolutionary tree, but just another branch on it. We have achieved what we can and we must step aside for whatever version of "us" (biological or technological) that comes next. I hope we are mature enough to recognise this.
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