Profile: mandy

Personal background
I'm 28, from a small farming town in Western Australia. I'm married to Gene and we have a 2 year old daughter, Chloe (that's her in the pic). According to my favourites list on my computer, my interests are: cross stitch, companion planting my herb garden, evolutionary psychology, shopping, genealogy, parenting, origins of language, computer fonts and clipart, photography, vegie crop rotation, herbs, home renovation and decoration, libraries, movies, politics, finding old schoolfriends, music, triple j, The Cure, recipes, artifical intelligence and future studies, writing and editing.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Sometimes I do think extraterrestrial life exists, sometimes I don't. I want to believe that it does, but sometimes I feel so alone in the universe that I find it hard to believe that there may be other beings out there. On one hand, I would like us to discover other intelligent life in the universe, because to me it would lend a lot of weight to theories of evolution and how life began on this planet. However, I do think it may be dangerous for us to make contact if we did discover other life forms, because of the possibility of hostility, especially if they were a lot more advanced than us technologically. But if the intelligent life was more intelligent than us in a good way, ie more enlightened than us, then we could learn some really important stuff, so for example if they knew how to communicate effectively with each other and empathize properly with one another and thus have peace etc. I also think it would be fascinating to compare the evolutionary development of both humans and the intelligent life we may discover, the similarities and differences - it could tell us a lot about ourselves as a species....
2. Hasn't info from earth been transmitted for years ie from radio and tv etc?
3. I run SETI because it is an interesting thing to do, I like statistics, I'm both terrified and exhilarated at the thought of discovering "someone else out there"... I think it's a fantastic project, and a worthwhile and useful thing to use my computer for. It's also interesting to think that heaps of computers (and people) all around the world are contributing to the same purpose.
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