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| My name is Victoria Lawford, I'm 30 years old, married, and live in Scotland with my husband, cat, and lots of fish. I do my results (such as they are) on my iMac, and I often just leave SETI running. I'm currently thinking about going back to University to do a Social Work degree, even though most people tell that I'm mad to think about it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I run SETI@home firstly because its an interesting screensaver (grin) and secondly because I feel I am doing something for the good of mankind. Our species is defined by its narrow view to anything, other species, ourselves, the environment, even the Universe is, in our heads, centered on ourselves. Nothing could do us more good than to encouter an alien species, or even definative proof of one. Even a hostile encounter would, in some ways, do us good, if hostilities really are something possible over the vastness of space.
Should we have a beacon to attract other species? It may seem foolish to assume that it would be a great idea to attract the attention of other species (in Anvil of Stars Greg Bear's aliens say over and over that any intelligent species who understands what the Galaxy is like will hide), but the potential good outweighs any possibile evils.
There are many possible things my computer could be doing while idle, some to help mankind, some to entertain me, but none that has such a potential to change our world and our sense of reality.
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