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| Personal background |
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Home: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Age: 54 (in 2007)
Occupation: Programmer/Analyst at Bell Canada (OpenVMS on Alpha and VAX, MS-Visual Studio/Windows-2000 on Pentium)
Hobbies: computer programming, weight lifting, karate (GoJu Ryu), astronomy, reading, watching sci-fi movies and TV, watching science programs on PBS and Discovery, surfing the net.
Favorite Movie: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (the first anti-nuke, anti-war movie wrapped in a sci-fi story; makes even more sense today considering the current level of geo-political friction)
Home Page: http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Responses to the SETI@Home Questionaire:
Life does exist out there, but I believe there are probably fewer than 100 technical civilizations in our galaxy. Reason: since a super nova would exterminate all life within a 30 LY radius, intelligent life won't be found in dense areas like the galactic center, galactic arms, or main disk, but only in the wispy outer regions like our neighborhood.
I run SETI@Home because I want to be part of this pivotal human experiment which will change us whether life is discovered or not. If we discover that we're not alone then everything here will change (we need to keep the Earth tidy incase company comes). If we discover that we are alone then life on this planet is a true miracle so we shouldn't be so quick to pollute or consume it.
Food For Thought:
1. It just might be possible that humans are the monolith (eg. probe) builders of Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
2. It just might be possible that God created us so that we could start greening the galaxy. Check out this URL for more details:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/millennial_project.html
3. Maybe intelligent life is more rare than generally believed. Check out this URL for more info:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/rare_intelligent_life.html
Home Page: http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
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