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Hello all,
I am a retired aerospace technician from Kennedy Space Center. I have seen many probes and people leave our fragile Earth to explore. When I first heard about the Seti@Home project in 1999, I signed up right away. I felt it was a way for me to help with that exploration. I have been a fan of the space program since I saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon when I was nearly 6 years old (Yes I do remember the landing). I finally got to meet my childhood hero and shake his hand in 2009.
Currently I travel the country with my wife and our cat in our RV. Though I am retired, I have never lost interest in the manned space program or in SETI. You can follow our mis-adventures at www.RV-103.com.
My computer is a few years old so I may not be able go as quickly as other computers, but so far I have faithfully and consistently kept my puter working on the Seti program since 1999. I am proud to have been a part of SETI for these many years and I intend to stay with the program as long as SETI chooses to run it.
Be safe and be well,
Rocketman |
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I have always been interested and followed the space program. I felt this was a productive way to contribute to man's exploration of the universe and of himself.
I know the chances of SETI finding intelligent life out there is slim, but if we do not dare try, then we fall short of the Human Race's need to explore. This is a good and honorable project and I feel in the long run will tell us even more about ourselves than about the life out there.
I do believe there is intelligent life out there. There is too much universe to harbor only one speck of a world full of life. To quote the movie Jurassic Park, "Life will find a way". It's out there, we just have so much universe to search.
The finding of intelligent life out there is going to be good and hard growing experience for our race. We will have to expand our vision of the universe to let in and accept other intelligent races. Some will not be able to handle that reality and I fear some will commit suicide, or commit their lives to disproving the truth and forcing their limited reality on the rest of us. I do believe though that the religious nuts and crackpots out there will be in the minority. Most of us will do just fine.
As for letting intelligent life know where we are, it's a risk, but the ones really taking the risk may be them. We are by nature a war like race. I am not condemning the human race, just pointing out a natural trait of ours. We have much growing to do yet. Finding life out there will help in that process.
"If you're falling off a cliff, try to fly - you've got nothing to lose."
- John Sheridan, Babylon 5
Be safe and be well,
Rocketman
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