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I completed a thirty year career of working with people who are mentally retarded and mentally ill in 2001. After retirement, we moved around the U.S.A. for a year, settling about 90 minutes West of the Kennedy Space Center. I have been passionate regarding space since I was first able to understand what lay beyond the blue sky, so this seems an appropriate locale for me.
Having grown up in the middle of the Space Race; I have been saddened by the loss of boldness and risk taking we see in space exploration currently. One does not explore new territory and learn new technology in safety. The bureaucrats have ruined, if not killed, NASA. So it is up to the "grassroots" to explore Space and find new people in the universe.
I support SETI@home because it is one of few ways that I can directly help explore space. I cannot explore new tech by seeking the X-Prize. I do not have the skills to lobby for the breakup and unleashing of NASA's people. What I do have is a good desktop and SETI@Home, so that is what I do to help. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have to agree with Carl that space is awfully big, and it would be a waste of space if wee were the only intelligent life. We will need to look for life signs at the tech level we currently possess, which limits our chances of finding it greatly. We have to hope that there is life using our level and type of tech, and is within range of our sensors, That may be hoping for too much, but we must try.
We should look as best we are able, but we will likely find life signs in an unexpected way. SETI may or may not succeed, but at least we are looking! In a quest for a low probability event in such a huge volume of space, there is no real way to predict when discovery will occur. Still we must try. It is the search that defines us as a species, not the contact.
When contact is made, the only sure benefit is the change from a species centered view of the universe to a life centered view. Many other possibilities exist for benefit or harm we cannot currently understand or even imagine. We have no need to transmit a beacon, since we have been doing so since the late 1800's. The beacon continues to grow stronger day by day, as or reliance on wireless tech increases.
I run SETI@Home because it is what I can do, one of the very few things, I can really do, to help explore space and search for other life. |
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