| Personal background |
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I am a technician for a minerals company.
Space fascinates me - always has. It probably always will.
My father died last year. He was always surfing the NASA websites. He embraced the whole space program with a passion. He woke us up to watch the moon landing in '69.
I remember as a child - sitting on the roof of our house with him and a telescope in the middle of the night, looking for Kahoutek (big disappointment, that one)
Last month I had the same telescope (he left it to me) with my kids looking at Mars.
Full circle, right? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It seems unreal, with the vastness of the universe, that we alone are the only sentinent beings in it. Perhaps life such as ours is rare by our frame of reference; perhaps it only occurs every billion years or so. Even a million years is too much for such a short-lived and fragile species as us, but a million years means little to the universe as a whole. A mayfly squeezes an entire life into a few days. To us that is nothing, to a mayfly it is everything. It is all a matter of perspective. Unfortunately, our perspective is the only one we have. I think that it is a huge crapshoot - finding other lifeforms that we can recognize as such. Look at the variation of lifeforms on our own planet; at how the different species have evolved. What is the likelihood of the same sort of species evolving somewhere else? In the same timeframe? Close enough to us to discover? Unfortunately, it is a very slim chance. But hey, you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket! And at least with the SETI project you can still dream and hope and let your mind expand past the confines it was designed for.
I can't comprehend infinity. I can't fully grasp the concept of millenia - but I can be part of this project. I have been interested in SETI since I first heard about it years ago. When I discovered SETI@home recently, I had to jump on the bandwagon.
I can't describe how I feel about looking for extraterrestrial life. I just know that we should. |
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