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Personal background
My Name's Aaron, Born in England and emigrated to Canada in 1962. I'm now 66 years old and live in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

I am very happily married to Rachel, in fact, she is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I have a passion for - and a love of life and I enjoy both gardening and photography. I also have a great interest in all aspects of Diesel Submarines particularly the Gato and Balao, United States Navy’s Fleet Class submarines. I am a Life Associated Member of the USSVI, Escolar Base.

I consider myself to be a friend of the United States of America (note: No abbreviation) due to the fact that I have taken the trouble to study it's history in depth and I'm pleased to say that I have many American friends.

Whilst being financially secure, I continue to work on a small Canadian Naval Base - because I chose to do so, I am not going to vegetate!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe the following:

1. There is extraterrestrial life - everything from bacteria to those whose intelligence far surpasses ours.

2. There are races whose technology is thousands of years, or much-more, in advance of ours.

3. Not all such races live on a cliché, ‘Home world.’ A planet is a dangerous place and is why I monitor the news about Yellowstone Caldera or for NEO’s.

4. Because of this they may have built ships that are hundreds and perhaps thousands on miles in length/diameter with an environment that equals and perhaps surpasses that of a, 'planet.'

5. Perhaps they have even forgotten their roots/home-world.

6. There may be ships that have been genetically engineered within which the crew, enjoy a symbiotic relationship with this living, thinking ship. There may be relationships where the ship is the master with the crew fulfilling the same needs as our blood cells and white cells. For a parallel take our Police Forces – are they not the white cells of society? The politics of the ship would resemble anatomy.


7. They chose not to contact us because such a revelation would destroy us. Where we would demand their science and in doing so – remove any-and-all motivation to pursue the quest for knowledge, it would leave us with no more metaphorical mountains to climb. And what if they refused to give us these answers, these secrets and mysteries that we have built our intellects on?

8. Then we would hate them! But this hate would have begun already when we quickly realized that their intellect towered above ours. It would be an unacceptable blow to our fragile racial pride.

9. Our religions would implode. The question of, ‘What church do they go to?’ in one form or another may result in someone attempting to assassinate one of them – and then what?

10. And... the Stock Markets would collapse in this very uncertain future.

11. Open contact was made in the past, a past that called a, ‘Close encounter of the third kind,’ a miracle or visitation from angels, and so they gave us religion.

12. Our various religions were created by them and given to us. We weren’t obeying our own man-made laws so they put on a firework’s display of thunder and lightning, performed some, ‘miracles,’ and threatened, ‘Hell fire and damnation,’ and there you have it! A well-ordered society.

13. But this only works when the society’s level of technology and sophistication is Bronze Age, today it wouldn’t work.

14. And why would they go to all this trouble? Because of all the wonders and mysteries in this universe, that of intelligent life is the most magnificent.

15. I sincerely hope that if another, "WOW!" signal (or better) is found by SETI or some other, that it is kept very secret indeed - for all the foregoing reasons.

16. I also hope that an alien reads this, I’m easy to find.
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