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I am a middle aged Communications engineer. Interests: Sailing, Skiing, Biking, Music, Mathematics/Number Theory, Radio Wave Propagation/DXing, Astronomy/Star Gazing, Celestial Navigation, Geology.
Practical Experience: US Navy-Submarine Service, Family man, Politically Conservative, gainfully employed, bored silly with the corporate world. However always seeking new challenges, ideas, and practical solutions for impractical situations.
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1. No doubt, extraterrestrial life exists.
2. I would find it to be rather difficult to predict, if or when “Contact†occurs. The dynamics involved inhibit proper interpolation/extrapolation.
3. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?
Only if all those sponsoring the project could agree upon a well thought out methodology to do so. The expense would be considerable.
“Beacons†have already been transmitted, arguably minute, since the use of fire/industrialization.
Any further deliberate “transmissions†simply demonstrates man’s Technical ability to do so. Albeit mathematically improbable, I believe massive EMP generated by Nuclear Detonations, may have demonstrated our existence, and thereby defined our technical ability.
Our existence may have been demonstrated, if these "Hot spots in time", were not overshadowed by the Sun's own. Because of this, any ET observer would have to be incredibly "lucky" to discover our existence, by observing unnaturally occurring EMP in our neighborhood.
As far as our own Radio transmissions being observed and the imbedded intelligence interpreted accurately, I doubt it.
I would thoroughly enjoy any discussion or debate on this subject.
4. I run SETI at home, to contribute to the project, to validate the usefulness of massive data manipulation through incredibly diverse processing resources.
The concept appears to fit well within chaotic modeling structure. If ET is discovered, the political/philosophical ramifications would be, well, "Fascinatingâ€.
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