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| I'm a road warior, a technical computer consultant traveling full time in the business computing world. When at home I'm an amateur astronomer in addition to being a true computer geek. I'm a builder by nature and a true gadget guru. My home and outbuildings are computerized (naturally) and I can remotely control almost anything that uses electricity in one form or another. When I'm on the road I monitor my home and home weather through the internet with 7 cameras and a weather station. I'm an amateur astronomer learning how to find asteroids because I want to participate in the NEAR project and maybe even find the rock that's going to paste us all over the cosmos! It's out there, no doubt. Maybe we can find it in time to deflect it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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With the billions of stars just in our own galaxy, if there isn't life out there it would be an awful waste of real estate! I have no question it's out there. Life finds a way. We just have to find it. I am proud to participate in the SETI@home project because I think it is one of the most relevant things the human race is doing today. I see it as an integral part of getting us off this rock we call home. Maybe if we find ET he will send us some information to help us get free of being a single-planet race. Why is that important? As long as we are confined to a single planet, one asteroid can put us out of existence! What then? What about Michaelangelo, Albert Einstein, Alfred E. Neuman, Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, men on the moon? It will all have been for nothing - lost forever.
We went to the moon to prove we were better than the communists. Now we just run a delivery service to low Earth orbit. The push to expand our horizons has petered out. If we find ET we will have a real reason to get off the Earth and try to actually meet ET. With all the benefits we have today as a direct result of space exploration, think how many more new inventions will benefit and uplift us!
But what if we DO find ET? Will that make us feel inferior of be a threat to our existence? I doubt it! It will prove we are not alone, the largest single revelation since we climbed out of the trees. It will give the theologians something to justify their existence. It could expose us to music unlike any we've ever experienced, and art forms that will expand our minds. It could be that we would be welcomed into the brotherhood of all sentient races. Maybe ET will be broadcasting the current copy of Universe Today, with ads for things we can't even imagine. No matter what, it will give us goals to shoot for that will give us purpose greater in scope than we've ever had. That alone makes the search for ET a noble project! |
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