Piedmont, South Carolina...Retired Pharmaceutical Research Program Manager...Frequent traveler, both foreign and domestic.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Will we ever travel outside our own solar system? If so, when/how? What would be the benefits/dangers to humanity?
Absolutely. Within the next 50 years. Probably through space travel using a propulsion system not yet even dreamed about. Benefits? Unification of the earth's population into a homogeneous society. Dangers? Unification of the earth's population into a homogeneous society.
2. How would we begin a conversation with an alien intelligence?
Possibly a mathematical representation of the human genome.
3. Why should we seek contact with alien species/cultures?
Curosity...Are we really alone? I don't think so. At this primitive stage in human development we are using the most superior method known to discover other possible lifeforms in our own galaxy as well as beyond.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
