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| Personal background |
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One day, a long, long time ago, he opened his eyes and his mind, to find himself a human being on a small sphere in space, suspended in an infinite universe, living under sentence of death from the moment of birth.
For years and years he sought the meaning and purpose of existence, and found none except being kind to his fellow human beings who shared this fragile lifeboat, swept by the current of fate to God-knows-what destination.
He kept looking for signs of gentleness, beauty, spark, humour, intelligence in others, and when he found it, he wanted to share, offering his own and delighting in theirs, and it made life easier to bear; the futility easier to forget.
Decades came and decades went and he despaired over how time was running out and how few companions he had gathered. People seemed too busy with day-to-day survival, the pursuit of material comfort and their amusements to care about truth and beauty and compassion.
So he cherished the few precious contacts he made with those who could see the whole picture of wonder, tragedy and mystery that human life was - yet unexplained by the wisest, yet unconquered by the bravest. He kept telling them: "We will just sit here very very quietly, keep our eyes and ears open. If there is a God, we will not want to miss a glimpse of Him if He appears".
The eternal hope of finding something beyond the pointless scrambling for possessions, status, power and distractions never died in his soul; he immersed himself in what he thought might lead him to God. He hasn’t found Him yet, but he has seen beauty and truth and met a few souls as lonely as he, as eager to share those rare gems they managed to squirrel away during their decades of journey as he was to share his.
These souls are his friends for life, no matter what happened before or after, for those brief periods of sharing made them soulmates forever.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Contrary to the impression possibly created by my personal blurb, I am not religious, I am only open minded. That is why I am doing SETI: I find it quite improbable (not impossible) that we are the only intelligent beings in the Universe. At least we wish we were intelligent -- something I often wonder about. Intelligence and suicidal tendencies don't fit too well together.
If there are other civilizations out there, we should be ready for anything. They may be wise or stupid (like us), they may be benevolent or aggrassively violent (like us), they may be advanced or primitive (relative to us).
Star Trek notwithstanding, I don't think they look like us (with artistically drawn cranial ridges) and talk perfect English. There is an even chance that they will help us, or destroy us, but I think it is worth taking the chance: if we are to be saved, we will need all the help that may be available in the universe.
Even if they ignore us (wouldn't you?) it would be nice to know that, once we are gone, the Universe is not dead and empty, but life goes on. |
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