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Hello,
I'm Lincoln born in Alexandria in 1964. Joined the USAF in 1983. Tour in Okinawa 83-85, then Rapid City 85-87 and Homestead FL 87-89. In the ND ANG since.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Found SETI in 1999, have always been in love with the COSMOS, probably because am connected by sharing the material and energy of the Cosmos. I have no doubt there is life beyond. As Bill Bryson says in his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
"space is enormous...The average distance between stars out there is 20 milion milion miles. Nobody knows how many stars there are in the Milky Way-estimates range from 100 billion or so to 400 billion [Milky-Way Alone]and the Milky Way is just 1 of 140 billion or so other galaxies.'" (P.27)
It's Unimaginably Unimaginable. Bill also adds, "there is a great deal of this nothingness until you get to the next bit of something. Our nearest neighbor in the cosmos, Proxima Centauri, which is part of the three-star cluster known as Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 light-years away, a sissy skip in galactic terms, but that is still a hundred million times farther than a trip to the moon. To reach it by spaceship would take at least Twenty-Five Thousand Years. The next star beyond this is another 4.6 light years of travel.
So space is so large and stars so numerous I have no-doubt there exists other intelligent life. The vastness of space does explain why we don't experience more visitors, yet I think we have been visited-whether we are visited presently is still a question for me. |
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