Profile: Jacques Laroche

Personal background
Pushing the envelope until it falls off the table because my pool of DNA is worthless unless I'm constantly refining myself.

Interests: Creating music, Technology, Robotics, Clanking Replicators, Glasses, History, Science, Art, Cooking, Politics, Transhumanism.

Currently a Computer Science / English student at Pace University. (New York Campus)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Extraterrestrial life definitely exists, but before we encounter beings at or above our level of self-awareness it is likely that we will discover lower level life forms (such as bacteria).

Finding life outside of Earth will allow us to better understand evolution on our planet and even the origin of life itself. In addition, the discovery of new life would also usher in a new era in space exploration, expanding our species beyond our planet and fundamentally changing our thoughts on humankind\\'s place in the universe.

Some dangers to such a discovery could be mass paranoia, and even fundamentalist interference to space exploration.

2. Humans should transmit beacons for extraterrestrial beings to find because at the very least the items we send out will be a testament to our existence if the chickens never leave the nest. The information we send should be limited to simple binary encoded messages that show where our home world resides along with information demonstrating the knowledge we have gained as a result of our current state of evolution on Earth.

3. I want to help with the search. I suggest targeting the open source community and collaborating with other researchers to make software packages that perform research for several projects at once. (ie. combining a cancer research program, a DNA research program and SETI @ home.)
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