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I hang somewhere and work somewhere else, which might be Belgium but maybe not. Life is more than 42 but less than all the rest.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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If intelligent life can occur here on earth (sometimes questionable) then there is the possibility of it existing elsewhere. SETI represents probably the only realistic way we might detect other intelligent life in the universe. The question of what we do if we find a signal is something else again.
I don't believe in little green men or UFO's(anthropomorphic rubbish, to assign homosapien attributes to the "alien", - an oxymoron at best or hollywood trash at the worst).
To answer the critics I say "If you don't look, you have no chance of finding something". What would be the Geo-political state of the world be if Columbus had not believed in the possibility of the "New World". Magellan, Marco Polo, Leonardo De Vinci (to name but a distinguished few) saw further than most of there peers. History is repleat with discoveries that were considered "impossible" or "crazy" by learned scholars at the time.
The search should be expanded, although the section of sky visible from Arecibo is large, it only represents a small proportion of the actual sky and only the sky visible in that hemisphere of the earth. I appreciate the scaling factors involved in both collecting the data and processing it but we may easily miss a signal without it.
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