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| I'm from Palm Bay, Florida and I'm 21 years old. I'm currently a student at the Florida Institute of Technology and working as a cellular phone service and sales associate. I enjoy astronomy, sword collecting, fishing, swimming and music. I find it intriguing to be assisting in SETI by just allowing my computer to continuously compile and crunch data. I hope that with so many envolved in this endeavour that it pays off and yields a viable answer to the question "Are we alone out here?". |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe ET life exists, if it didn't, as a quote from the movie Contact will suffice here, "It would be an aweful waste of space." I can't answer as to when we might discover life elsewhere out there, since we've been looking for a while now, but how, I believe that SETI and the use of radio telescopy will yield the discovery since EM waves are the best idea of communicating over such a vast distance, and also EM waves can not only just raise a flag flashing that there is someone out there, but also it can even allow them to communicate data as well, through pulsing the EM waves. Benefits are absolute, possibly the most puzzling question next to, "What is the meaning of life?" will be answered. Dangers, well everything can have inherent dangers associated with it, so in this case the benefit of just having the knowledge that we aren't alone out here, far out weighs the dangers. Anyway, I can't believe a civilization that exists millions of miles away would have any forethought in finding another civilization out there in the universe just to destroy it or wage war with it. I think the quest for knowledge and the light of scientific discovery are the most benign things that exist.
Humans should transmit a beacon that others could find, and the message should be very simple and in a language that any intelligent life could understand, math. Prime numbers, decimal integers, anything that displays a descernable pattern to let whoever is listening know that there is intelligence behind the message.
I run SETI@home because I totally believe in the cause, and my views of the project are extremely high, and I think that what is being done is taking every advantage of available resources in this most important quest. I can only suggest to keep doing what you have been, the project is quite valuable in my view. |
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