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| I'm 58 years old, live in Marion, Massachusetts, a small town at the head of Buzzards Bay, and earn my living as a financial advisor. Living next to the sea, I've sailed all my life, and love single-handed offshore sailing, for which I use celestial navigation (now backed up with GPS). I'm a member of the Planetary Society, and have done volunteer work for Dr. John Mack at Harvard and his group, PEER. Astronomy has fascinated me since I was a kid. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. If what I've read is true, it does exist, and we've already discovered it. Possible benefits, I hope, will be great advances in both technology and ethics. The main danger I see is that we will react out of fear rather than love. I am not sure we are sufficiently advanced right now in terms of technology and morality to handle such a discovery, and perhaps our denial of ET life's existence is healthy for the time being.
2. Aren't we already? Anyone out there should already be picking up our radio an TV signals. But to send a specific message, I'd think it should be sent in a language that other civilizations can interpret (mathematics?). As to contents, how about selections from the Bible?
3. I want to help. The more people listening, the sooner we'll come across ET life. I'm curious about space and what's out there. |
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