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| Personal background |
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| I'm a computer network engineer living in Merritt Island, Florida, with my beautiful wife Novy. I work on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where the missiles, rockets and shuttles launch and where the nuclear subs come in to port. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I actually doubt that we'll find intelligent life outside of Earth -- it's not a conceit, just acknowledgement of the delicate circumstances needed for life to develop in space. Yet I still participate in SETI because, if we don't look, we'll never find anything! Actually finding the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth is a tantalizing possibility, but the effort itself is worthy of merit. Using hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the effort brings many countries together toward one goal. Actually finding traces of life beyond our own planet just may distract us from our own petty squabbles, which would be a welcome distraction indeed! Imagine a world composed of countries, having made contact with alien life, which halt their warmongering and actually work hard at cooperation and relating with each other in planning and utilizing data and communications from a newly discovered world far beyond Earth! Yes, it may be paranoia which drives them to work together at first, but perhaps they would see the wisdom of continuing their newfound friendship with each other. It will take a worldwide effort to send humanity's first explorers into the depths of the solar system and beyond, just as it has taken a worldwide effort by millions of people to conduct research we all know as SETI@home. Any relations with alien life will require people around the globe relating together without boundaries and with democratic social interaction. I know that we have that ability within us all, and it is time we showed it!
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