User:Ben Sibelman

My name is Ben and I am an Earthling. (SETI pioneer Jill Tartar says we should all start our online profiles that way.) I'm inspired by the idea of Earth as a single organism, especially because it provides a poetic justification for something I believe in strongly: spreading life to other worlds. As I see it, this is how Gaia can reproduce, finally bearing her first children after 3.8 billion years of waiting. These ideas led me to become a contributing member of the SolSeed Movement in 2006.

True to SolSeed's values, I'm also committed to environmental activism to help life thrive here on Earth, particularly working with the Sierra Club's Coal Free Puget Sound Energy campaign. I'm also writing a sci-fi novel and working (very slowly) on some SolSeed-related music videos like this one.

And, oh, yeah, I also work 40 hours a week at Microsoft, helping write apps people can use to manage their digital photos and videos.