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I do believe that we are not the only single lifeform in the universe. It is very short sighted to think that we are alone, on this orb we call Earth. How could we be the only 'intelligent' life in this vast universe? The odds just don't weigh in our favor.
I often have wondered, as we peer into our electron microscopes, and strive to split atoms, that there might be someone out there, peering into their 'microscopes' looking at us. The depth and breadth of what we call "the universe" may be just a mere speck of dust. The planets, suns, stars and galaxies, mere 'atoms' in a universe more vast than we can fathom. There may be someone 'out there' who is examining us, with the same wonderment and awe that we enjoy when viewing images from Hubble. Could it be we are just an electron in the Milky Way of a much larger existence…?
In all my years, I have oft wonder, just what is out there. I remember like it was yesterday the images of a man on our moon on a July night long ago. I remember the first "fireball" I saw, as it plummeted from space. I remember stopping along a country road, late at night, to watch strange lights darting across the sky. I remember lying on my back on a warm summer’s night in the neighbor’s yard, watching satellites streak across the night sky. Oh, to be young again… A life so long ago...
So, what about me… I am originally from Ohio, living in Alaska since 1996. I've been a ham radio operator (KV3X) since 1980. I now work as a project manager for a telecommunications company. Like many, I love computers and photography.
Here in the far north, the long winter nights afford time to peer into space. The aurora and all its wonderment can’t mask the vastness of space beyond. We are home in the Great Land, Alaska…
http://theczechs.net
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Yes, I do think there are others out 'there.' Are we ready for them, I don't know. Are they ready for us; even more of an uncertainty. We can only dream of the benefits. We should not fear the unknown.
I believe we should do everything in our limited power to search the heavens. Is God out there? Is God one of "them"? Whatever your spritual belief, whatever the case we owe ourselves, the human existence as we know it, to try within our limited bounds to do whatever it takes to explore beyond our horizons. We owe it to ourselves, now and for our children.
In order for us, as a human kind, to grow we must not be clouded by the short sighted judgment that we are alone. Growth is stifled if we put a finite end to our existence. Where would we be if Columbus had not asked questions of what lies beyond...? If we believe that life on earth is the end, we have shuttered our growth as a society; a society of the universe beyond our small speck of dust we call Earth.
I run SETI@Home for "fun." Will I be the one to discover life beyond? No. Is this project the one that will discover a hint of life beyond? I really don't know. But we must try. In the face of adversity, we must persevere. Even if we don’t believe, we owe it to ourselves to try. I have always followed the old cliché, “whatever it takes.†This is only one more, in a long string of “whatever it takes.â€
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