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| Personal background |
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| I am 63, English, a former chemist and medical editor now turned goatherd. I manage a slaughter-free goat farm in Vermont that, God willing, will soon be making cheese to support itself. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Of course extra-terrestrial 'intelligent' life exists. Life is far too tenacious not to find its way out of any half-likely ooze offering.
Not only does life flourish in circumstances of intense hostility (look at the thistles in our pastures), but it probably can seed itself through space quite readily. Spores on planetary ejecta following asteroid hits? Moons like Europa breaking up under tidal forces? Scenarios we're too poor in our intellects to imagine?
It's just a matter of our taking the trouble to find the evidence for life elsewhere. This is is why I volunteered for the SET@home project, and why I support solar-system exploration and deep-space astronomy projects.
I certainly hope that when we're done with Arecibo's slice of the universe, we'll look at all the rest as well, and keep trying for as long as it takes.
If we hope to find a beacon, the least we can do is send one out ourselves. Back-and-forth communication is most unlikely, so I doubt if content is possible. Probably a signal that is unmistakably artificial will have to suffice.
Were content possible, LOVE would have to be the first choice.
Danger is most unlikely, except mortal danger to our egocentricity and geocentricity. By the time ET can follow up the beacon in person, we'll be long gone and the planet will be staffed by goats (already surpassing us in 'intelligence' and love).
In the picture, I'm the one with the beard. The other is Albion.
Regards, Chris W'bee
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