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Hi,
My name is Eleonore. I moved to the States from Germany a little over 3 years ago and work for an IT consultancy as a project manager. My hobbies are paining, jewelry design, astronomy and reading any sci-fi novel I can lay my hands on.
I have always been fascinated by the infinite diversity that may exist in a place as old and as immense as our universe. If we were to be the only ones that have ever been capable of looking at the stars at night and wondering where we came from and where we go, what a lonely place this would be...
It is amazing to me how much we have already been able to find out about the universe - and I am sure we are still just like children asking the first questions - but it will of course always be a human view of the world. How would another intelligent being perceive the universe? Could we even exchange opinions and understand each other? Would mathematics serve? Or would the pressures of evolution, of having to cope with reality or face death shape minds in similar ways on any world that could generate and support life?
I would love to know that we are not alone and that a sharing of knowledge may one day be possible. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I hope other life exists, whether we can find it and communicate with it will have to do with the frequency with which intelligent life happens and uses forms of communication we can detect. It will also have to do with the time a culture will stay at such a level. The jury is still out on both counts. If we could find a civilization at our level, I'd have as much hopes and fears for us as I have for them. For a lot of intelligent and not so intelligent life on this planet meeting western scientific civilization has been pretty bad news. Maybe cultures that use scientific methods (and communications signals would be part of that culture) have a tendency to be expansionist, suspicious and aggressive, in which case we may for once be on the receiving end...
2. If we want to take this journey of discovery seriously we should do all we can to be found. The question of the message is almost a moot point as we pump out so much junk - I am still amazed at US daytime television - they will probably end up receiving The Jerry Springer Show anyway. If we are thinking about a message, I would think that a selection of music (which follows mathematical rules) and simple mathematical principles and numbers would be a good way to start.
3. As I have my laptop hanging on a DSL line all day and night I may just as well put it to use. As someone once said, it's a big-a. sky out there. |
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