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| I'm a 27 year old firefighter in the US Air Force currently stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. I'm running Seti@home on both my Windows machine and my brand new iBook (OS X). I hail from Seattle, Washington and I spend most of my time overseas either working or traveling. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm not sure if it exists, at least in the form we currently believe it to. Considering what I've been reading on String Theory and Quantum Mechanics, I'd have to say I've not come to any conclusions aside from the fact that it's always better to be looking than to assume we're the only ones.
The benefits from such a discovery come with the dangers. Cross-contamination, even benign in nature is possible, and then we'll have to deal with that. Florida is dealing with an ivy that is taking over the Everglades. Sure the ivy produces oxygen just as the other plant life there, and it is green, but it is also a problem. The benefits could have applications in technology, but then again we have to look at things from a very real perspective. Governments would want to control any technology or any other information we obtained from ET sources because of national interests. Many things we currently have locked away in the depths of our Governement aren't the sorts of things we'd like to have Saddam knowing about, ot other likeminded leaders. Something to think about anyway.
As for should the humans transmit a beacon for others to find, aren't we a little late for asking that question? It's already been done. :-)
Why do I run Seti@home? That's easy. I can't help a lot, but I can help a little. If the project finds something, that's great, if it doesn't, then at least I hope the people doing this learned something else useful as well. :-) |
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