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Hi,
I am a 35 yo Romanian guy. I love computers, sci-fi movies and litterature. I used to be with the Romanian Air Force for 6 years, as flight engineer, and now I am leading a small offshore IT company based in Bucharest, while I am testing at home my abilities in electronics and home building.
More info about me at http://www.copcea.ro |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am sure and certain life exists somewhere else in this vast Universe, matter has a unique way to combine itself into entities more intelligent than its basic parts. Quarks become atoms, atoms become mollecules, mollecules combine into acids, alcohols, then enzymes, proteins leading to RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) then DNA (Dezoxyribonucleic Acid), that eventually leads to LIFE, whether we talk about a simple virus or about humans.
When and where this process can appear beyond Earth is impossible to tell. A priest told me once "We are born one after another but we die randomly". This is life, everything is random, we could discover other life forms tomorrow or in 10,000 years from now, we may even auto-distruct ourselves before a new civilisation spawns elsewhere in the Universe.
I think life itself, as an organisation of the matter, is cruel by definition because it must survive. We have wars and disputes when resources are high, and wars and disputes grow higher when resources become lower. The benefits would be those found into a muti-cultural, multi-racial, multi-ethnic society: little by little we learn how to become tolerant, we learn our values are not necessarily the best, we tailor ouserlves little by little to a better end, to overcome our basic instincts.
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This is a tricky question, there are pros and cons to both actions: sending a beacon or keeping silent. There is however a saying "Silence is golden". Better listening and seeing what other's intentions are, one could tell. However if they do the same, everybody keeps listening in the void. Maybe we should transmit a beacon from time to time, at the same time being careful about the possible distructive results, you can never know what somebody is thinking.
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I don't like my computers to produce heat for nothing, this is why they produce heat by computing SETI information, hoping I will be able to see in this life one of those nice aliens.
I see Earth like a golden prison: we can do whatever we like but we still are prisoners here. |
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