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Location: North Carolina, USA
Occupation: Seat filler
Hobbies: Slacking off, thinking, spending money
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, I think extraterrestrial life exists. We will discover it when they come to exterminate us and use our planet for its resources. The benefits are that we'll get to see aliens and know that we're not alone in the universe. The danger is that we may not be able to appreciate the discovery in the 5 minutes of existence we have once they arrive, and that would be a shame.
2. Yes, humans should transmit a beacon for others to find. We should send measurements for playmate of the month, my grandma's recipe for "special" brownies, and free AOL software.
3. I run SETI@home because I think it's worthwhile, and I don't have anything else to spend my idle CPU time on except for folding@home and genome@home, but I have to get more computers before I run those. I doubt that SETI will be successful any time in the near future, simply because humans are still quite horrible to one another. If we can't even keep from killing ourselves all the time I doubt an alien race would chance communicating with us lest we hunt them down and destroy them like we do everything else. I have one suggestion: start looking in the visible light spectrum for signals as well. It isn't altogether impossible that ETs could sent signals using light instead of RF. Of course, the signals would have to be gathered in space as it's useless to do so on land with our pesky atmosphere in the way. |
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