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| Hi, my name is Michael, I'm 29 years 22 months old. My hobbies include snowboarding, good computer games, lots of reading, and recently, drinking cheeky chardonnay & watching this very bizarre screensaver I downloaded. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Is ET out there? I tried explaining this to my daughter after she saw my seti saver running. Difficult. Ok. Start with the facts. There are almost countless millions upon millions of stars in our galaxy. If just the smallest fraction of those stars have planets around them, and out of those planets just a small fraction are able to support life, then there are still millions of planets in our galaxy that could have life on them. But. But it takes a long time for life to develop. But we're pretty late on the scene in cosmological time scales. But we're looking for life that's at a pretty similar development to us(give or take a few thousand years). But they could be many many light years away and their signals might not reach us for another thousand years. But. But if we don't look, we'll never know. Then I gave her the 'what ifs',and they are too many and varied to type in! Dangers? Knowing we are not alone in the billions of stars in our galaxy, part of the countless millions of galaxies in the universe. That would put into upheaval most of the modern religions with their human centric beliefs, and how much death has religion caused over the past few thousand years? Benefits? For me, it would confirm personal religious beliefs; the universe had an instant of creation. Our scientific thought can take us back near to that instant, but not beyond it. In that Instant, everything was laid down; the laws that would lead to stars being created, those stars dying and giving off certain elements, new stars forming with planets, elements on those planets coalescing and eventually forming life, then maybe that life achieving intelligence. It may be glib, but without that hope, that faith, there is only despair. To me, the universe is too ordered to be otherwise. Perhaps the reason intelligent thought has evolved is so that we can try to understand the nature of the Universe. If those disparate intelligences could talk, share theories, how much greater could our understanding become? Maybe like some vast interconnected web, |
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