| Personal background |
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| Same as jgglass@bryantstratton.edu. Librarian living in Cleveland, OH, area. Watched entire Cosmos series three times as a teenager. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I think it is possible that it exists or has existed, though that possibility seems to have now been reduced by findings that indicate our galaxy has a habitable zone analogous to that in our own solar system. That, however, indicates where we should direct our attention within the Milky Way galaxy. I'm not sure whether life in other galaxies would be detectable in any concusive way.
We may never discover evidence of intelligent life in our galaxy. That's not a reason to not look. Finding evidence of life elsewhere in our solar system would definitely be encouraging, however monocellular that life may be. It would draw our attention further outward from our own planet
Discovering signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life--however distant--would definitely cause many of us to reassess the meaning of our existence. Knowing there is someone else out there (recognizing that we're really 'out there', too) may draw us on Earth together. At the same time, it would also tend to make some of us feel vulnerable and would create another rift between groups of people--those who accept the fact and are ready to expand outward; and those who would wish it never happened, isolationists. There may be little difference between interstellar relations in the future and intercontinental relations in the past several centuries on Earth. |
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