| Personal background |
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| I am a transplanted Coloradan living in southern Indiana. I am self educated, and do communication equipment repair, network installation and system analysis in my spare time. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I heard about the seti@home project about 10 of years ago in chat room on AOL, Some guy was ridiculing it as a complete waste of time, "because if there was any other life in the universe, God would have told us so in the bible". I found this immensely funny and had to look it up.
I am personally convinced that we are not alone, having followed the research of Von Daniken, Carl Sagan and others since childhood. I am intelligent enough to realise that the odds of actually finding anything through this project, with the current portion of the sky visible to Arecibo, are very slim, and that if we do find something, the odds of that civilisation still existing are almost as slim, but I have to know.
If we humans set up a beacon, it would almost have to be orbital, not ground based to avoid atmospheric attenuation and scatter. I think that we would need to send a binary signal across a broad frequency spectrum, mathematical constants and basic element structures would be a good start, maybe a binary representation of our solar system. It could not be too complex, for how are we to know how an alien species processes data, but the simple on/off of binary should be universal. |
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