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I'm a mechanical designer/poet. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, USA. I most like to visit the wilderness of the high mountains, where more stars can be seen at night than in the city lights. Photography is another of my interests, and my hopes are to combine this with a telescope to capture my own images of the night sky. http://www.geocities.com/crazy_horse1.geo/home.html
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe there's more life outside the neighborhood of our Earthship than we could hope to imagine; this including intelligence both beyond and beneath us. We are currently doing the best of possibilities for searching the heavens, though perhaps in limited effort when compared with all other pursuits.
Discovery is a risky business, but when as a whole have we let this limit the expansion of our reach? We could find good or we might find ill in our efforts to connect with other lives. This is the wager we make, hoping for the best. I think we've already sent our evidence that we're here with the transmissions both directed as well as leaked since the beginning of experimentation with radio.
If we find a viable signal from outside our own influence, by all means, let's attempt contact in a more concerted sense. This may be the only way we might countermine what opinions others might derive from the signals we've already sent. The Creator only knows what impressions may be derived from the garble that may pass for communication emitted from Earth thus far; though, we may be able to outdistance these weaker signals with a more concentrated transmission to farther reaches, thus sidestepping any need for explanation. One can only hope we find a sense of humor to accompany a necessary intelligence.
I run SETI@home because it makes me feel good to participate in such a unified, and in my mind, important undertaking. I'd like to know where on Earth there are over 4 million individuals giving such concerted effort to one such noble task (outside of voting or mandatory taxes). I feel a part of a grand team, where most pursuits are generally subjective, this one is for a greater goal. Per aspera ad astra.
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