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Hi. I'm 34 yrs old and have been a SETI@home user since 2000. I have always been fascinated with space. Actually, not always, but ever since I saw Star Wars back in 1977 when I was 7 yrs old. I often wished when I was younger that I had been born 100 or 200 years later than I was. Figuring that by then civilian space travel would be a common accurance.
I recently bought my first telescope, although I don't have a whole lot I can look at because of where I live (NYC). I can see the planets (the close ones) being that they are brighter than anything else up there.
I haven't looked into it yet, but I would LOVE to take a trip to Arecibo some day and check out the telescope (I'm sure there must be some sort of tour for people to get in and see it).
Well, that's it for now. I'll probably update this again soon.
See ya!!
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Yes I do believe that there is life out there. If you try to grasp the idea of how many solar systems are out there, it's hard NOT to think that there would be life elsewhere in the universe. Think about it.... there are millions, or is it billions, or is it trillions (I'm not sure) of stars in our galaxy alone. You HAVE to figure there is life on at LEAST one of the planets that are circling all those stars. And if you don't, well, there are trillions of galaxies out there. I can't even wrap my brain around the possible number of stars in the universe. The term "one in a million" is usually used to denote something that is practically impossible. If that was used to describe the chance of other lifeforms in the universe, well, it would mean that there are millions, if not billions, of other planets out there with life on it. A mixture of certain gases on a planet that isn't too close or too far from a star does not seem impossible. And that is basically (very basically) all you need.
I think humans SHOULD transmit a beacon. Actaully, we have been for over 60 years now. Television. Our first television broadcasts have LONG since left our solar system. Anyway, we should send information about the human civilization out into space. Very basic information (how long we've been self aware, maybe what we look like, some of the good things that humanity has accomplished, and also some of the bad things just to let them know we don't deem ourselves perfect) sent in a binary type of language. Some sort of language that can be deciphered with mathmatics.
I run SETI@home simply for the reason it was created. To help in the analysisof all the data collected from space. To help speed the process of possibly finding a signal that was sent purposely or inadvertently by another civilization out there in the universe.
I can't think of any suggestions other than maybe updating the program so that it can analyze the data faster. When I first started running SETI@home it would take about 12 hours to comple |
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