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| I'm an IT pro and I've got a very bad habit - I'm curious. I look for questions as much as I seek answers. Both are equally appealing to me. So I'm obviously a little bit of a science buff. I've studied, apart from computer technology, Physics and History (a couple of university grades each, enough to get the general idea) and I try to travel abroad as much as my somewhat scant pecuniary means allow me. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I first heard about SETI@home in a TV documentary show. I thought at the time - and still think the same - that the project is an instance of one of the most obvious uses we can give to the knowledge mankind has put together ever since Renaissance -- the urge to ask such essential questions as "who are we?", "are we alone?", "what's the meaning of all this?" and so on. If this is not Science then what is it?
If I were an extraterrestrial entity of any sort, I'd surely wouldn't reveal my existence to such a bunch of sad things as we are. I'm afraid that, in our present stage of civilization, we simply are a hazard for any other sort of life out there. Consequently, I don't deem it a good idea to transmit outwards.
On the other hand, though, we can't betray the best qualities we possess - curiosity, intelligence (?), ingenuity - so I'd say we should try and find out as much as we're allowed to in order to gather all the information possible to make decisions in the future, when times are better, more promising, maybe even brighter. |
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