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| Personal background |
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| I reside in Summerville, SC, about 30 miles west northwest of Charleston. A professional land surveyor by day and amateur star gazer by night. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I personally find it hard not to believe that intelligent life is abundant in our Universe. I think that we will find this evidence by “bumping into†someone or something out there looking for the same answers we are. Hopefully we will uncover irrefutable proof when we, as a society, are advanced enough to accept it. Once discovered it would take decades or even centuries to actually meet them. This will lead to advancements in such things as energy, communications, and medical sciences in our attempt to greet our new friends.
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I believe the only way we will discover other intelligent life is if they are looking for us as well. Sending a beacon would the best way to aid them in their attempt to find us and I believe they would do the same. I think a repetition of organized pulses, like Morris Code, would be the easiest to discern as an intelligent transmission. I don’t think the message would be as important as the transmission.
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I run SETI@home as an attempt to help others, who believe, as I do, that there IS intelligent life out there, find the proof that we are not alone. As vast as the Universe is, the possibility that we are the only intelligent life is absurd and statistically improbable. The chances of detecting that “beacon†from another Galaxy is very slim, given the envelope in which the Arecibo can see. However, if we don’t look the chances are nill. The worthiness of this project is proven in the over 3 million users donating computer time.
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