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| I'm Steven Tedds from Nuneaton, The Midlands, Great Britian. I was born on 1/4/71, that makes me 33 on my next birthday. I'm an electrical/electronics engineer. I'm a bit of a computer nerd (but not as nerdy as some on here :-P ) I live with my 'wife to be' and our 3 children. I'm also a mad veteran snowboarder hence 'SnowBum' (like BeachBum, but on snow). I like all things 'techy' and 'cutting edge'. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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When i was in the French Alps, on a snowboarding trip, in the late nineties i as out late one night looking at the crystal clear sky and Hale-Bop (comet) was up there with its tail sweeping behind it. I was smoking a non-too-legal 'Herbal cigarette' and started to look at all of the stars. I realised that there are billions of them. It's impossible that the earth is the only planet lucky enough to have life evolve. Even if there're only a few thousand planets with similar conditions to ours, one must've evolved life of some form.
Its not IF we find life but WHEN we find it!
WHEN we find life there will be dangers (be it only on a bacterial level) but throughout human life there are dangers, its just how we minimise or control those dangers. The benefits will be vast, we'll have another model of a life sustaining planetary enviromental system.
Should we transmit a beacon..........ha ha ha, too late to decide that one. We've been transmitting beacons ever since we invented the radio transmitter!
What information should we transmit, again too late for that one. We've been transmitting just about every bit of information that we've ever learnt over the last hundred years or so.
Why do i run SETI@home.....because i'd like to think i'm helping to push back the boundaries of our understanding of space and the universe! |
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