Profile: Patrick (Illuminati1013)

Personal background
My name is Patrick Jerome, a farmer's son from the unfashionable end of the nation - Mississippi.

"I farm so that my sons may become statesmen." Thomas Jefferson said (though I think perhaps we should wonder if his father said it) - and perhaps I'll prove him right. I'm currently undertaking the studies of political science and biology at the semi-prestigious educational institute - Millsaps College.

I'm just this guy, you know?
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I myself am a skeptical believer in distant extraterrestrial life. Certainly, I used to count myself among the believers in ancient astronauts and UFOs, but as age, reason, physics and biology began to settle into the nooks and crannies of my cortex, I lost that simple fascination and began to believe in something more subtle, less fantastic, and, to me at least, more interesting.

Perhaps these distant beings, if they are more advanced than us, or more inclined to communication, will contact us. The use of SETI programs and searches is the only way to look for them, be it in steams of radio waves or something else, something new. Perhaps these distant aliens are at the same technological step we are, but through an accident of galactic cosmology, they are surrounded by life-bearing worlds, and think nothing of seeking life beyond their solar system.

Mankind should endeavor to send occassional transmissions into space, to the canditate systems we are constantly discovering. Also, the pervasive television waves are sending a rather nasty beacon to the worlds beyond - let us hope that they can't understand it. A simple message is best, I think - something along the lines of "We're home, here's our number, please call back."

We have a multitude of problems here on earth. Many of them are caused by leaders - and common people - who think only in the short term, only for the present, or the immediate future. SETI is something long-term, something vague, something with no immediate use. For me, participation in something on such a scale is like planting a tree, getting married, building a house and having a family under the oppresive threat of nuclear war - just like my parents did, just like so many others.

The search is for them, the search is for us, the search is for our children, the search is for everyone.
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