Profile: repshal

Personal background
I am a 40-year-old clinical microbiologist from Maryland, USA. I have always been interested in the world around me and above me. My first recollection of being interested in outer space was from the time I saw my first episode of Star Trek. Gene Rodenberry was a visionary not only of what space may be like, but of how positive a human race could be. When we reach that point in the human race, we will be ready to meet other worlds.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
If I did not think extraterrestrial life existed, would I be at this site? Are there any dangers in looking for such life? This reminds me of a line from the movie Jurassic Park. "...scientists are so busy trying to figure out how to do something that they don't stop to think should we be do doing it...?" Therefore, if we find ET should we transmit a beacon? Yes, because any race advanced enough to travel to us is probably advanced enough that they have gotten past the prejudice and fear that guides so much of human behavior.
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