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| I grew up in the middle of cornfields watching the "billions and billions" of stars over the central Illinois sky. I spent hours of mosquito-infested summer evenings trying to glimpse meteors and pick out different planets and stars. I have lived in Chicago for the past 15 years, and I have suffered tremendously by not being able to view the night skies for all of the light pollution the city spews. I have grown up realizing that there are 2 types of people - those who can look up in the sky and say, "yes, those are stars", and those who look up in the sky and stare in disbelief at the magnitude of space and ponder the millions of questions that can only be answered by exploring the heavens. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Regarding ETI, I don't necessarily believe that ET will be landing on our doorstep anytime soon - but I believe that the science behind SETI is sound and invaluable in learning more about the universe. I think that if life IS discovered, it will not be in any shape or form we are familiar with or could imagine. I am most interested in seeing the theory of microbes from Mars being explored further; that would help to solidify the theory that life can generate beyond the planet Earth (what are the odds of life on 2 different planets in the same solar system?) If it can be proven as a fact, then it is only a matter of time until we locate solar systems that match ours, where the star is of equal brightness to the sun, and there are planets in a relatively circular orbit, protected by a larger outer planet and even with a "wobble" that would generate seasons. We have proven on earth that life can exist in many environments and in even the most noxious of environments - volcanic vents where temperatures are extreme and contain sulphuric gas - out of all of the conditions that life thrives on earth, one of those conditions has to be repeatable somewhere in the universe.
I am interested in the advancement of physics which builds on knocking down some of the barriers of past theories and laws that will allow us to expand our horizons beyond conventional science - space will soon be accessible to all.... |
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