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Born January 9, 1970.
I am a software engineer living in the City of Bradford in the north of England.
My thoughts...
On the 20th of July, 1976, something amazing took place. An alien spacecraft from a planet orbiting a G2 type star at a distance of close to one hundred and fifty million kilometres touched down in the Chryse Planitia region of a small, red neighbouring planet.
That small, red planet is Mars, and the alien space craft that took to its soil is Viking 1 - a robotic probe that was launched from the planet Earth less than a year earlier by a bipedal species evolved from apes.
In less than half a century, humankind had become a space-faring race that is reaching out into a solar system it once thought revolved around the Earth. Now, at the dawn of a new millennium, SETI@Home is reaching out into the cosmos in a way that may change how we view our place in the universe.
Earth is an island in the vastness of space. Let us hope that those lands we see sparkling in the night sky above and around us offer more than a natural beauty and scientific curiousity. Let us hope that those distant lands offer us intelligent, alien company that we may one day embrace. |
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SETI and SETI@Home are mankind's ears. Without them we are deaf to the universe. If extraterrestial life does exist elsewhere and if they are advanced enough to want to be heard, they will be heard. Perhaps SETI can help us discover what they have to say. After all, if we have the potential to land Viking 1 on Mars after less than fifty years of rocket science, what technological strides may other races, on other worlds, have made? Communication is fundamental to most every species on Earth, whether it be as complex as the spoken word or as primative as a throaty grunt. We can only assume that communication is fundamental to any advanced species.
On Earth, mankind is a rare, sociable breed. I can only hope we are not alone in the cosmos.
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