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Hello out there, whoever you are. I am a college student in my senior year at Unnamed University, and I was told about SETI over a year ago. However, since my computer could not handle the software up until this point, I did not use SETI until recently. This certainly is an ingenious way to search for extraterrestrial life forms. As I learn more about this project, I will be reflecting more about it, but as I don't know very much about it yet, I don't want to say something that will reveal my ignorance.
Hmm, what else about me?... I enjoy reading, writing, and designing websites. At this point, the thing that weighs most heavily on my mind is the prospect of finding a job. Yikes! Well, that's about it for now. I'll catch you on the flipside! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do think ET life exists, absolutely. How could it not? I don't know when or how we will discover it; I think there is a definite possibility that we will be discovered first, or have been discovered and are perhaps considered a bunch of strange creatures in some kind of huge petri dish. But I am sure that there are other life forms out there with technology that reaches to godlike proportions (a la 2001, A Space Odyssey) and who just won't be bothered with us until there is some kind of world crisis, much like NATO.
Possible benefits? Probably one of the best things we can expect is an exchange of technology, medicine, or methods of governing. Perhaps we can learn something from these other beings that we should have thought of years ago. Possible dangers? I can't think of any unless we meet someone who is even worse at dealing with the natives than we are.
I don't know; I think we are probably already transmitting hundreds of thousands of signals just by using satellites and leaving junk in outer space. Maybe these extraterrestrial life forms are doing surveys of planetary atmospheres and have noticed our ozone layer deteriorate. (I am not usually this cynical, but it is difficult not to be conscious of the dirty laundry we humans leave around.)
I run SETI@home because, in spite of everything I just said, I think it is important to be able to communicate with other life forms. It will advance our learning to levels we have not even dreamed of. I think this project is a fantastic idea. Way to show everyone who said you guys couldn't do this! I don't have any suggestions, but if I think of any, I'll be sure to tell you. Thank you so much for this opportunity. |
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