| Personal background |
|---|
| My name is Steven Brown and I am 21 years old. I first got interested in SETI in High School, through my science teacher. Since then, I have followed SETI as close as I can through the news and other sources. I am in the United States Air Force, and, as this was written, have visited all but one continent, Antartica, and seen the stars from every hemisphere. You get a great view from home, I agree, but once you get to look at them from slightly diffrent angles and locations, you really appreciate how small we are and how vast space is. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
| My opinion on SETI is extremely favorable. I enjoy reading about SETI, what it stands for and how they work. I also believe in the positive that E.T. life does exist and that we will discover them or they will discover us in the very near future. The possible benifits that we could face is upgrade in technology and possibly even an evolved sensibility in the fact that we will have concrete evidence that we aren't the only intellegent life forms in this universe. We will learn to put our petty differences behind us and live in harmony with ourselves and our newly discovered neighbors. The dangers, however, will be those individuals who have egos large and selled enough to believe they are at the top of the metaphoric food chain. They will seed the widespread panic that will follow. They will be the ones who will drag us down, possibly even delay, if only for a short time, our neighbors fom making first contact. I am mixed on the idea of sending out a beacon for others to find. Granted, it is conceivable that they will know basic computer language, but it is also possible that all forms of their communication is so diffrent and so complex or so simple, they may not understand our communication or just write it off as space noise. I think we should send what we did with Voyager; a picture of a male and female, where our solar system is in relation to other major stars and where our planet is in relation to our own star. I run SETI@home because I feel I am helping out the greater good. |
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
| Account data |
View |
| Team |
None |
|
