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Hi SETI participants. My name is Ross Sedawie, I live on the Gold Coast in Australia. I am in my fourth year of electrical engineering. I specialize in signal processing, I guess that’s one reason why I am interested in the SETI project. I love the way SETI makes our PC's compute STFFT (Short time FFT) on a scale that no one has ever done. By that I mean millions of PC's number crunching at the same time.
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I, for one, believe there is life out there. To quote the movie Contact, If there wasn't life, "it is an awful waste of space don't you think?". If we did find life, the repercussions would rock our world in ways we have never thought of. Will we still have wars with each other? Will religion become obsolete? Will the technology of earth increase with the input of foreign technology? Or will all these things become worse. Will we find ourselves fighting for our planet instead of our countries. Who knows. It is human nature to fight, to have our own space and to be admired by people. Lets hope that if we do meet ET, that we think about what it means before shooting it or doing tests on it.
I do think we should transmit a beacon, but the problem is how. What if the aliens have a hearing range of a dog or a dolphin. What if they are Silicon based and this completly changes how they hear. I say this because if they can't understand our frequency, no matter what we do, it will go un noticed. It would be like us looking for frequency in the high GHz that have been modulated by some weird compresive maths. That is, will they have their own digital type signals. Possible micro-level digital where 1 bit contains as much information as 1 word.
I think the project is great. I run it for 2 reasons. 1) I am interested in ET. 2) I am interested in signla processing.
Anyway, these are just some thoughts from the land down under here in Aus. Have fun and watch the skies!!!
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