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I'm a software developer from New Zealand specialising in wireless field device client software, working for a company called ECONZ.
A good old science fiction fan, keen on movies, DVD's, reading, and computer games. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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This universe is far too large for it to be "just us" in it. As far as I'm concerned, its not a case of "if" we find evidence of non-terristrial intelligence, its merely a matter of "when". My fondest wish is that the "when" will be measured in months or years, maybe in decades, from this point, so that there is a chance for me to see the single most defining event in all of human history.
I consider the human race to still be in its infancy, all our petty arguments and battles and wars and such, are the inevitable outcome of a self-indulged only-child, who has never had any real guidance (or has ignored it when it has come for the most part) and has therefore developed believeing itself t be the center of everything.
I believe that First Contact will bring about perhaps the greatest and worst period of our history, our puberty if you will, where we realise that we are merely a tiny, insignificant part of a much greater community. As all teens do, there will be backlashs and rebellions, some who accept and move on, some who reject and retreat.
I hope that eventually, we will move through this phase, and mature as a species, becoming a society where every member is valued for their unique contribution to that society, and where that society makes its own unique contribution to the universe as a whole.
In the universe which has given us "being", we must value every life, in every form, for that miracle it is, treasure it and improve it in the most positive way possible.
Seti@home is merely one way that I contribute to this. |
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