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| Personal background |
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| I am a graphic artist who works for a printing company in Louisville, KY. I am 36 years old, got two smart kids and a great wife. One of my main hobbies is cosmology, and keeping up with current theories about the universe, its beginnings, and why things are the way they are. Pretty weird for an artist (so I have been told), but Da Vinci once said that all the things he did was intended to make him a better artist. Sounds like a good enough excuse for me. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI@home, I think, is one of those projects that people will later look on as a milestone in human history. Just think of it. The goal is to detect electromagnetic emissions from another civilization in space, and perhaps decipher and understand them, and anyone with a PC or Mac can help do it. What a profound thing that would be, to find someone other than us in this universe, probably wondering about the same questions. Are we the only ones? Is there a god? What are we really? What is the universe all about, and is there something beyond us calling the shots or are we merely part of a random event?
People watch shows like Star Trek and think that it will take some space ship to discover what is out there. Sorry, physics says that we probably won't be running into inhabited "M-class" planets anytime soon via the Enterprise. If we want to know who we are, if we want to compare notes on our discoveries, if we want to see what could be, we need to look and listen, now and here. Someone out there is trying to tell us about themselves, I believe. SETI@home is humanity's attempt to hear their call, and I love the fact that I can play an active part in it. |
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