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| Personal background |
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Pitt Pirates Media is a website about all aspects of video and includes program development.
Being a computer programmer, web designer, and network engineer/administrator for my full-time job, for part-time service to my country, and for myself, the web site keeps on growing and improving on a monthly rate. Pitt Pirates Media focuses mostly on video, but has many helpful tips, tricks, and code for programming.
The AnythingVideo newsgroup keeps on growing. It is nearly as large as the Cloak-And-Dagger newsgroup, which has been around for several years. The Pirates newsgroup is holding its own and growing slowly, but steadily. (The links to join these are at the top of the Pitt Pirates Media website). If you are interested, even slightly, in anything that is video, feel free to join the EverythingVideo newsgroup.
Born in the 1960's, I am a male from the Pittsburgh area, 6'3" and around 230#, brown hair, and blue eyes. I am married and have three wonderful children, though I miss my girls very much. I am an weary optimist for I believe that most things will work out, but it needs effort and guidance.
http://www.PittPirates.com
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Looking through several of other Thoughts About SETI and SETI@Home, I have noticed that most of them are opinions about the possibility of other intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. So, to keep with this (unwritten) theme, my response is:
The chances for other life anywhere else in the entire universe is 100%. Starting with possible microbe fossils on Mars (the closest planet to Earth) hinting at possible past life very close to our own planet, how could there not be some sort of life further out in space? If there is life elsewhere, why would it not evolve and obtain intelligence?
Now, the Question: Is there intelligent life near enough to us, within our technological development, in this window of time, that we can possibly find them using our limited technology on our assumptions of life and technology? We are only one planet, one system, in one galaxy.... But our window of knowledge and technology is small. Can we find (or can they find us) other intelligent life seems to be a more reasonable question.
...And what if we find it?...
I rather not speculate on the type of life forms that have intelligence, can understand us (to any degree), and can attempt to reach back to us. Other than curiosity, what purpose would contacting exists? We are a random group with little unity abounding wtih fear of what we do not understand. This is not true for all, of course, but how would anyone seperate the ones to know from the ones that serve their own agenda? And if they did contact a few that they could trust - how would I know? How would you know? If SETI shows a planet full of radio activity that shows intelligence, this will change the face of the Earth and will be one of the greatest moments in history. Science will focus more on this possibility, nations will race for the opportunities, and each responsible person, will, indeed, question the role of one's existance.
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