Profile: Pat Killian

Personal background
Retired from the best trained, finest military fighting
force in the world, the US Army. Retired as an instructor
and returned to work for the Army as a civilian trainer,
training future instructors.

God Bless America! Because Freedom is righteous. But
Freedom isn't free. We must be willing to lead the way.
This we will defend.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
SETI is one of the most courageous and ambitious projections
of the human spirit. Obviously, with the number of
potentially habitable planets estimated in millions, there
is no doubt that many of them have life. I hold onto the
concept that more than one probably has a jump of hundreds
of thousands to maybe several million years of development
on us. Of course, any signal we might ever identify is
probably so old that the civilization may not even be there
any more. We can only hope they are still alive.

No doubt, then, that there is or was intelligent life. That
may clearly be the best explanation for not having been
contacted yet. We can't even get along with our own selves
and have the nerve to reach out to other life forms. When
we get our planet together, they will come.

And for those who haven't rationalized it yet . . . if a
life form can master travel through space, they will have
mastered many other things, most of which we couldn't begin
to understand. That means if they wanted us to know they
were here, they would tell us - for they would have nothing
to fear from such a technologically inferior race of beings.

When we know ourselves and work together for the improvement
of our own species, then we will have proved ourselves
worthy of contact. Till then, we can at least let them
know we are reaching out.
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