Profile: Barbara Pease

Personal background
I am from the United States. I am a computer scientist -- a software developer and technical researcher. I live in the country. My home is surrounded by magnificent views of gardens, meadows, woods and rolling hills. I telecommute to a business 500 miles away. I love to spend summer evenings in my Japanese garden drinking tea. Sometimes I simply work there while listening to my stereo through a sliding screen door. A laptop is such a portable device. ;) On clear nights I look at the stars and wonder.

I am an artist. I do pen and ink sketches, charcoal drawings, computer art and hanging wall sculpture. I enjoy going to galleries and museums and hanging out in coffee shops. You may see some of my work at www.BlueDawnArts.com

I am also a poet -- a poet philosopher. You may read some of my work in "Blue Dawn" at The Well, if you like. A query on Google.com for "Blue Dawn" will get you there. It pops up near the top. You may reach the same spot with www.BlueDawnPublishing.com
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe life evolves as an act of divine creation. I believe life springs from the same divine essence, love at its central core. I feel God creates us all with a right to be free. We at our own choosing create our inner worlds for better or for worse. Our outer world reflects those choices. I do not believe God limited life to only our Earth.

Other species on other worlds might feel the same magical impulse to explore space just like we do.

Collapsing the vast distances among the stars is problematic for our current understanding. Radio or light waves may be key to interstellar communication over the generations. Even light slowly collapses the distances involved. I fear intergalactic chat rooms may not come to pass. ;-)

Imagining how first contact might impact our world, I can see the possibilities. Here is a more humorous one. As we learn the news, some like myself would be delighted, some would be terrified, and some would demand to know why the international intelligence community didn't see this coming. =) The press would go wild with news and speculation. Our species for the first time would know it is not alone. Is that good news or bad news? It depends on who we meet out there.... =)
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