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| Personal background |
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| Living here in the Silicon Valley, all my life, has made me a technology addict. I like saltwater fishing, photography, backpacking, and diving, among other things. After 20+ years working in space operations, it is only natural that I have an interest in verifying that we are not alone. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Searching for evidence of other sentient life in the galaxy is like finding a specific grain of sand on the beach. I think it will take time. Just because we swept an antenna past a spot in the sky, does not mean that someone is not out there. We need to keep searching, scanning, and rescanning. Sooner or later, we should turn something up. I think looking for E.T. is easy, because we want to do it. There are no consequences to "just looking." It's fun, and it gives my otherwise bored computers, something to do.
The real mess starts when we find someone out there. If they end up having the ability to visit us, do we really want them to? If they could, they would have the superior technology. On the other hand, we could end up listening in on something that happened millions of years ago from a species long extinct. If we find someone, perhaps some galactic soceity, we need to solve our own issues on Earth before we go forth and say "Hello". They are probably watching us now, thinking, "Either they grow up and we welcome them, or if those bozos so much as try to leave this star system before they have grown up, we will L.A.R.T them!"
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