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Hello,
My French spirit from the sixities is young enough to accept the idea of the possible existence of other worlds harboring life - and who knows, complex enough life structure emitting signals. My main hobbies are all around "being curious" feature; e.g. reading science articles, learning more about astro-science, maths, computers, physics, star gazzling, and so on.
Cheers,
Pierre-Olivier |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life exists for sure, we are not the center of the Universe. But question is more about the meaning of "life" and what we do expect to find. Life could be incredible structure like the ones described in science-fictions books: electric cloud, gazeous, floating in clouds of giant planets, and so on. The benefit of such discovery would be a very strange one: we can only listen the signals and try to decrypt them. This would take years and may be we can never decrypt the meaning (I'm thinking about people listening at whales and dolphins, they can try to decrypt some part as signals are associated to outdoors observation of animals). Here we can only hear, we cannot observe what going with signal - excepted if images are sent - and we cannot reply (a reply would take years to go back to sender). This is why risk is very limited, there is no real danger.
If I run seti@home it is first to contribute to human task to discover new worlds, to better understand our position in universe and also to understand how a low cost distributed computation can be achieved. This is a great project for both astro-science and computational aspects. |
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