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| I'm from Houston, TX, home of NASA, and work in the computer industry as a technical consultant for many of the hospitals in the area. My life @ the moment is fairly boring with activies ranging from reading Scientific American and old Asimov books, to playing computer games. I've an African Serval named ZOOM for a pet, and look forward to getting back into skydiving. If the economy tanks any more, I might just be able to afford to buy a house soon! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. A: I think it would be nice for life to exist elsewheres other than out planet and even nicer if we could detect or even communicate with other intelligent life. As to whether intelligent life does exist, well, the probabilites of such at teh moment are just as valid as the arguments for and against the existance of god. A benefit to discovering other life, I feel would be the uniting factor it would play here back home, however one of the risks we take in looking for life is whether we will know intelligent life when/if we ever encounter it? What would be the impact of discovering that silicate-based or other-based forms existed after we'd been mining or exploiting the resources or the life itself without knowing of it? Would it be native america and the conquistadores alll over again?
2. A: Yes, I feel that we should transmit something, although we're doing it all the time, every day with radio and television right now. However, to send a planned transmission with descriptions of who we are and that we desire contact, as well an instructions on how to perhaps build a transmitting device of their own should they not have one and how to get in touch with us should any intelligent life be out yonder and capable of recieving and interpreting any signal we might could send.
3: A: I feel it's a worthwhile project that should be paid a bit more attention to, and consider that although I do not contribute monetarily, I can at least do my part by processing data at no expense and some result. I only wish I could process packets a bit more quickly. |
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