Profile: Jon Sullivan

Personal background
I'm an ecology lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand. I'm having fun exploring planet Earth, some of which is more alien than I could imagine. Bacteria with strange metabolisms living a kilometer underground! Lichens (tri-kingdom symbionts!) that can survive being frozen at near absolute zero and live for over 4,000 years! Cuttlefish that communicate with colour patterns on their skin! It's a wild planet we're born on. I bet extraterrestrial life is even crazier.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Perhaps knowing others are out there will make us wake up and care more for our own precious little planet. I doubt it. At least it would be fun to tune in to their nature documentaries (The natural history of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.)
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