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| Where to start? I'm a soon to be 30 accountant. I have a 5 yr old daughter who doesn't understand why I don't know which star ET lives on. I also have a husband of 9 years who is in the Air Force and gets annoyed that the SETI@home screensaver locks up his computer sometimes. I have always loved reading, mostly non-fiction. Read Cosmos as a freshman in high school. My first magazine subscription was to Discover when I was 14 and I still read it today. I sometimes wonder why I became an accountant since my first and true love is anything that can make me say "Wow, I didn't know that." I guess that's why I like astronomy so much...all you have to do is look up and there's so much to wonder about, so many why's and why not's. I'm trying to instill similar loves in my daughter; she's had the stars and our solar system on her ceiling since she was 2 years old. They glow in the dark and she's close to naming the planets. She asks me why the aliens live in the sky and not here and I don't know what to tell her. |
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I absolutely think there is life out there. What I don't believe is that they are like us. I don't agree with the typical assumption that aliens are smarter than we are or that they will be similar in form. For all we know they could have already discovered us and just don't want to announce their presence. I believe the majority of humans cannot handle the knowledge that there are other intelligent lifeforms out there; it would pose too much of a threat. What these same people don't realize is that we stand to learn so much from other lifeforms, intelligent or not. We could come across a race of murdering plundering hateful aliens but then we could also come across a race that could help us solve many of our problems.
I think a beacon is a great idea. I think it should convey that humans as a whole are peaceful beings and do not wish to create harm to an alien race. Whether that will actually happen is a different story. I believe if we were to discover another lifeform, our natural curiousty would take over and we would destroy any potential relationship with the lifeform.
I think the SETI@home project is a great idea. I first discovered SETI when I was pregnant with my daughter and surfing the internet. It occurred to me that the chances of discovering another lifeform in my daughter's lifetime were much greater than for my own lifetime. Perhaps I will live long enough to see the project's efforts come to fruition...I am certain that my daughter will. It's amazing how different generations can experience such drastically different things. When she sees the screensaver running and asks what it is, I tell her that mommy is trying to find what star ET lives on. |
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