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Since I was a child I have often wondered if there was other life in the universe. While I truly believe there is life, I can only hope that I will see some form of contact in my lifetime.
I'm a 28 year old graphic designer by day at Roanoke Technology Corp., located in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, doing various tasks and by night, I'm an avid thinker, pondering those ultimate questions that many of us ask, but rarely get the answer.
Married with a beautiful 2 year old daughter and a handsome 9 month old son, I'm quite the busy person.
I love to get out in the open woods of the mountains. Going to the mountains is as close as I can get to the stars right now. I've gotten a new telescope, so I can learn astronomy with my kids.
Once I heard about the Seti@home project, I immediately jumped right in at the beginning. I can only imagine what we'll find when we can explore the universe further. |
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1. I definitely do think extraterrestrial life exists. It would be arrogant as an intelligent species to think so with a universe as vast as ours.
We may have already discovered it, we just don't know what we're looking at and how to translate it.
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In essence, there are more benefits than dangers. True, there may be hostile life, but look at humans! If we proved ourselves worthy, we could benefit by technological aids to restore and improve our environment, end diseases and hunger (no, I'm not in a beauty pageant), and finally travel the universe, not in search of others like us, but in seacrh of ourselves. Humanity could wake up from it's abyssmal sleep.
2. That's a tricky question.... If we transmit from a ground-based or space-based beacon, then we may attract the wrong "aliens." On the other hand, it can't hurt to try. We've already beamed all kinds of signals and transmissions out into space. Maybe we've already been heard.
3. I run SETI@Home, because I've always wanted to contribute to something grand and noble in design. It's a great way to use our computer processing power for something other than destructive purposes.
I think the Seti Project is a model for what society should be doing: working on projects that give insight to our universe and everything in it.
For suggestions, I'd like to see SETI expand into other areas of the country and allow paid/volunteer workers. I'd love to get into this stuff. With the recent search using lasers, I think that is headed into the right direction. Maybe we can send out transmissions via laser into space? |
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