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| I'm an electrical engineer, working for the US Navy. I enjoy astronomy along with most sciences, particularly cosmology and particle physics. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I've always been interested in all things astronomical, and am just open enough to believe that SETI may be successful - but we have to look anyway to be sure. The SETI project is important to us for many reasons, not all of which are based in mere self-satisfaction of finding another form of life.
Extraterrestrial life is possible; however, it may not be able to communicate with us in any recognizable method. If communication is achieved, the results will be unpredictable. They may have little, if any effect, or they may be considerably useful or destructive - there's just no way to tell.
Since I do not believe that the distances between stars are sufficiently large that they will never be breached, we should be cautious about communication with any technologically advanced species.
What SETI should send is the basic information about us - no specifics, particularly about our level of technological achievement. There should be some mysteries left for us to discover, and we should be careful to ensure that we are not misunderstood or deceived by what we are told, should communication be achieved.
In the end, life has a mandate to fill every possible inch of habitable space. Whether or not SETI is successful, mankind must and will take the initiative to push outward into every possible nook and cranny where life can exist. If we fail to do so, we have failed every living thing that has ever existed.
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