Profile: Mike Sabine

Personal background
I do not know exactly why someone would be interested in reading this. I do find myself reading the User of the Day profiles each time I come back to this site. I suppose my checking the User of the Day profiles has to do with wanting to find
some sort of similarity between myself and other users, belonging to the same club. That is partly why I joined my company team. Here goes then.
I have been married to the same woman for almost thirty-five years now, have two grown sons and two grandsons. I will be fifty-six in July '03. I am working on my second career. The first career was for 21 years in the US Army in the computer field. I really have not left the military in one sense as I have been working in the contracting field for the past 16 years, supporting US military operations. Mostly in communications maintenance but now as a Quality Manager.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Do I think extraterrestrial life exists? Probably, but if we discover it, I do not think it will be as advanced as far as our fanticies would hope for. If ET discovers us, as they may have already, we may not be far enough advanced for them to even want to make themselves known to us. On the other hand, we as humans are a fairly brutal race. Why should we think that an ET intelligent enough to discover us would be any less brutal? We can only hope that an advanced intelligent life force, capable of sustaining and probagating itself, would be less brutal than we are capable of being and have shown ourselves to be.
Should we transmit a beacon for others to find? I think we probably already are, if you consider radio and television broadcasts an electronic beacon. Anyone trying to listen to those might considers us too difficult and disjointed to understand. If we really want to be discovered, perhaps we should consider a powerful, focused light beacon or beacons. What should we transmit? It would almost certainly have to be mathmatical, but fairly easy to decode so they could figure out one of our languages and hopefully respond. Maybe we should be looking for a visual response also, not just electronic.
Why run SETI? What a waste of unused computer cycles if we do not run SETI!
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