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I'm considered to be a unique individual by those who know me. I don't fit the "average" mold, and I like it that way. I'm an Air Force Brat who spent the first 18 years of her life moving every two years and travelling the world. My favorite place I've ever lived was Guam. After High school I joined the Washington State Air National Guard and became the first woman to attend and graduate from the Air Force small arms instructor course. I started college, joined the ROTC program and became one of the first group of women to become a member of the Regular Army as opposed to being assigned to the Women's Army Corps (WACs), and then on to active duty as an officer in the military police Corps, stationed in Germany. After my three year tour of duty was up, I chose to do the "stay at home mommy" thing, having a beautiful daughter and son. When my son was 18 months old I found myself doing the "unwanted divorce and ex-husband skipping state" thing, which led to the "single mother on welfare" thing, which thankfully was replaced by the "single mother returning to college" to get a master's degree thing! I am now a School Psychologist with two beautiful teenagers and a wealth of experience behind me. I am also a HAM radio operator who has recently upgraded her license to General class and am working on my Extra class license. I am joining MARS and look forward to meeting a lot of new people.
If you turn every negative thing that happens to you into an opportunity to learn something new,life becomes a series of wonderful educational experiences, taylored specifically for you. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I like Carl Sagan's statistical analysis of the probabilities of the existence of life on another planet. I am a psychologist, and yet I have a hard time comprehending how anybody can gaze at the stars and not experience even a hint of the vastness of space. How can anyone look at the beauty in our world, the wonder and miracle of life, and yet believe that it exists nowhere else in the universe?
We don't need to transmit any beacon, they know where we are and have been visiting our planet for millenia. They have left plenty of hints as to their existence, both archaological and mythological.
At the risk of being entirely politically incorrect, I believe that humans are not all on the same rung of the evolutionary ladder. We are locked into a very narrow perspective of our existence. Research in Social Psychology has shown that it is human nature to view our reality from an "US/THEM" perspective. It won't be until humans are ready to quit defining ourself by our religion, race or country of origin and to start seeing the "US" as the human family, we won't have psychologically evolved to a level where the existence of even one other species can be accepted without causing world wide psychological distress.
That is why I believe that it will be many years before we are contacted by extraterrestrial life. As a species, we are not evolved to the level where the majority of our population can psychologically/intelligently handle the knowledge. When extraterrestrial life is discovered, it will happen through either the SETI program or something similar. Someone out there will either accidentally let a radio signal through, or they will choose to deliberately allow us to detect a very small signal. Just enough to change a few minds. Then sometime later, another signal, just a tad larger and of greater significance. Humans will need to be eased into the reality of extraterrestrial existence one baby step at a time. |
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