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| Personal background |
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| I live just outside the Washington, DC area, am 62 years old, and work at the National Institutes of Health in science communications. You can find my Yahoo profile at http://profiles.yahoo.com/RWC4520. I like to play golf, chat on the Internet, travel (only on Earth, so far). Most of all, I enjoy gazing up at the stars and wondering if anyone is gazing back, especially if my wonderful huaband, Julian, is at my side. I now own a 12" Meade LightBridge telescope and curse cloudy nights! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The odds are overwhelming that life most certainly exists on planets other than Earth. The sheer number of stars that could have planets harboring life makes it virtually certain. It is only a matter of time until we discover it. If there are other intelligent species out there, we may discover them through radio signals. Non-intelligent life may be much harder to discover. Perhaps our technology will progress to the point where we can detect extra-solar planets on which the conditions are sufficiently earthlike to be good canditates for life.
We should definitely transmit a beacon to let other species know we are here. By the time they receive it (hundreds to thousands of years), if they intend to respond in a hostile manner, ala "Independence Day," our technology should be at a point that we can kick their ET butts! If they're not hostile, the benefits of interacting with an extraterrestrial species would be nearly unimaginable.
I run Seti@home because I'm actually from an alien race. My mission is to warn the home planet if earthlings actually detect that we're out there . . . |
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