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I am a 37 year old operations manager living in Ontario, Canada. I was born in Canada and raised in good old England. I returned to Canada at the ripe old age of 30.
My interests are anything sci-fi or fantasy.
My ultimate dream is to experience outer space. To look back upon our small blue planet, to gaze up at the star filled sky from outside the distorting atmosphere, and to experience total weightlessness (sex in zero g's would be incredible!). If I ever achieve my dream then I really wouldn't care about returning to earth. My life would be fulfilled.
I am generally dissappointed in the human race today. Maybe it's just my age, but attitudes these days seem to be pretty poor. Though we are the most intelligent animals on the planet, we can often be the most stupid. War, politics, greed, and selfishness are the order of the day. I hold out hope for the human race in the long run. We've come an incredibly long way in such a short time. Our future is amongst the stars. We'll make it eventually, though I know I won't be here to see it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think et exists? Without a doubt. I cannot believe that in such a vast universe, we are alone.
How will humans discover it? By accident probably. We are searching in so many ways that our efforts will pay off somehow. I doubt that our first encounters will be with intelligent life. Though life is probably abundant, intelligent, space-going life is probably rare. Looking at our evolutionary history, and all of the accidents that have lent to our being where we are today, I suspect technological beings are few and far between.
Benefits and dangers? The biggest benefit would be knowledge. That is what we strive for. Maybe the whole human attitude would change for the better. The biggest danger would be from ourselves. Religious factions may find it hard to swallow. Fanatics may try to destroy what has been discovered, and those who discovered it. Alien invasion? Yeah right! Let's send our sub-lightspeed fighter ships across the vast galaxy to invade this little blue planet! See you in a few thousand years pal.
Should we send a beacon? I don't think so. I'm not afraid of invasion, but why clutter the universe with more noise, and waste precious resources on a beacon that may never be heard. Let's just look and respond to what we find. Noisy creatures rarely get to see nature, but he is wise who watches.
Why do I run seti? I've been with seti@home since the beginning. I love the idea that I can help with what could be mankind's greatest discovery since fire. Man's future is in the stars (earth WILL eventually die). Anything that helps us get there is worth persuing and investing in. I don't have a lot of money to give, but my time is on offer. The seti@home software is easy and efficient. I will keep running it as long as I have a computer. I wish the seti team the best of luck, and thank them for the opportunity to play a small part in their great search. |
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