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Hi. I'm in the UK, MBA, 50, married no kids, 2nd career (technical, first was managerial) and enjoying English village life and not commuting to London. First registered with SETI last year, then changed PC, ISP and email address and lost contact with my SETI account. Thanks to a good support friend at Freewire I've resurrected my old email account, re-discovered the SETI password and am now back in touch.
I began to leave my PC on after first registering and then one day before going away on holiday decided to set up automatic calling for new units. I've now left this on and, having renewed the P133 for a 750Athlon am steaming away and doubled the unit count in 6 months.
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I don't think we can be the only accident of evolution and it's only a matter of time before some kind of 'contact' is made with another. Dare we imagine communication with them? Only if we have already become fluent in dolphin, whale, orangutan and others will we have much chance at exchanging concepts with a really alien life-form. The most successful intergalactic explorers are likely to be the most progressed - my only fear is that when they find us we will be observed and perceived, justifiably, as a moronic total waste of space and blasted away in favour of a new intergalactic superhighway.
Thus maybe we should hide and not advertise our sordid little existence. It's a shame we can't do better than we are and the human race (globally) can't blame the global situation on anyone else - I despair of the human condition. Sorry. 'Do as you would be done by' seems a reasonable maxim - but of course we don't, do we?
I still run SETI because we just can't stop being inquisitive and an ET contact might just put global conflicts into context. Although the human condition is desparate, universal hope must spring eternal. In a PR world every story is eclipsed by another - would the WTC still be significant if Alpha Centuryites landed at Kennedy airport?. Maybe it's just what we need.
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