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Hi, I'm a trial lawyer (attorney) in Ontario, Canada. I'm old enough that I don't want to tell you my age. I'm young enough to think we'll find a message in these radio signals.
I love to read science fiction when I'm not working. I'm a Trek fan, and have always subscribed to Roddenberry's vision and philosophy (updated, of course, to allow for the fact that the Great Bird of the Galaxy was a bit sexist -- a product of his times). I'm a technophile, so my computers (desktop and pocket) and I are also good friends, although I do no work in any computer field.
I have two sons, and actually started the SETI thing on my younger son's PIII-500, then thought that it could also run on my PIII-1 Gig. It's running at a nice little clip in the background now on my machine. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Yes, I do think extraterrestrial life exists. I hope it'll be a kind we can communicate with. I don't think we'll run into 'humanoid' life forms. I hope things that we take to be fundamental physical and mathematical principles turn out to be so when applied to wholly different physical setups used by beings who are nothing like us. If the things we understand as fundamental physical and mathematical principles turn out actually to be universal (applied by other living entities), our sciences of physics and mathematics (and perhaps others, even biology) will take a surging leap forward. This is a benefit. If those principles turn out not to form the basis of the extraterrestrials' physical world and understanding of the universe, where does that leave our efforts to understand the universe? This is a danger.
I very much hope that, whatever happens, the inhabitants of Earth will be open-minded enough to conceive of, understand and accept the differences extraterrestrials will undoubtedly display. Seeing those differences might also permit us to see how similar we all are as inhabitants of this planet, and help us overcome our stubborn insistence that various groups of us differ one from the other. This would be another benefit.
No beacon....you never know but that what we say in it might be considered rude by another culture.
I run SETI@home because it's by far the coolest thing I've ever heard of. |
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