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Hi all,
Long time SETI@home worker, first time profiler. I am an American ex-pat currently living in South Korea. It's nearly impossible to view good stars in this country due to the light polution, polution polution, and dust. I still long to see the stary skies I used to see in Africa. Baring that, I can at least dream about the stars, and SETI@home helps for that pourpose.
I only hope I live long enough to shake the little green (or purple or blue or whatever color) person's hand (or paw or stump or general appendage) when the time comes for meeting. |
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1. I expect that life of some kind exists out there somewhere. Probably the first kind of extraterrestial life we come across will only be animal or plant, less than intelligent, and probably not much more than pond scum. That may happen within my life time.
Any intelligent life discovered may be through a project such as SETI@home. But unfortunately, though we will know it exists, we may never hope to contact it because of the distances involved. I hope they at least have good sitcoms, though. This too I believe could happen in my lifetime.
Contact with any intelligent life will probably happen long after I am dead and humans have begun to move out into the stars. This "contact" will also probably be accidental and more than likely not much more than the remnants of a lost culture or the scientific flotsam that societies toss out into the heavens in search of knowledge. But this will lead us and guide us and put us on the path to finally being able to meet anyone else out there.
As to benefits and dangers, I see mostly beneifits, and the dangers are only those we face each day when we investigate our own planet and tinker with our own lives. One additional danger may be in not finding it if it does exist. Wouldn't it be so much better to find it before it finds us?
2. Since we are already transmiting a beacon through our radio waves, would it hurt to purposely transmit something for anyone out there to latch on to and perhaps have a chance at deciphering? I think nothing much more than hello and who we are is sufficient for a beacon.
3. I run SETI@home because I have a dream. Not the same one as Martin Luther King (though that is a good one). My dream is to see humanity move out into space. Anything that might help give us a push is worth taking the time to persue, and SETI@home takes so little of my time. |
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