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| Personal background |
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Visit
http://www.swartz.ws
to find out more about me.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Yes I think that given the great number of
stars in out galaxy alone - ET is out there, from microbiological to intelligent
form. There is just too much to our own existence for it not to be otherwise. I
don't know that it matters though at this point. Unless they decide to come for
a visit, we may not survive long enough to ever find out or get close enough to
do anything about it, but we have to try. IF we survive, space is our only
chance in the long term - we can't live on this world forever. ----We could find
ETI tomorrow or 10,000 years from now. I'm not as optimistic though that this
will bring about big positive changes in humanity although it does depend on the
manner in which we find out - a signal from light years away is quite a bit
different then ETs showing up in our backyard. Ultimately any change in our
behavior has to come from within us, and after the novelty of finding
intelligent life elsewhere wears off, most people will realize that their lives
won't have changed much - we will still pretty much be who we were. ----We
should not only send a beacon out, we should be planning on moving off this
planet. Our time here is finite. We need to be doing what we can to become a
space-faring species - even if takes thousands of years, we should be pushing
towards it today.... ----As much as I "waste" computer cycles on other
things - I welcomed the opportunity to have it do something productive! SETI@home
has to be considered one of the most ingenious ideas of the last 100 years. It's
opened up so many possibilities, not just for finding ETI, but it shows the
potential for humanity to actually get behind and support an idea and it has
crossed nearly every self-imposed boundary that we humans have erected.
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