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I live and work in Singapore as a journalist and writer. Am Indian, married (to a writer/journalist - who else would put up with odd hours and eccentricities?) and we share our house with three cats.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well, yes, I believe quite firmly that life exists elsewhere in this universe that we know. That's the basic premise isn't it?
When and how? We have to be patient, to understand that time spans can be long. Much of recorded human history took place in the last 5,000 years, yet human history goes back two million. Will it be a programme like Seti@home that does it? Perhaps. It might also be a beacon that we set up to orbit one of the gas giants, or something like that.
The very interesting question is about the information that we want to send out. Whatever we might want to say about ourselves - it will be edited to an extreme degree - will have already been said but in a far more prolix form, and will have been said for the last several decades. For radio has been around a long time, and television too. If there is anything listening to the masive streams of broadcast setting out from the planet every hour, then they will know our loves, hates, follies, dreams and crimes. It may not be in a form understandable to another sentient civilisation, but if they can hear us then we can assume that they can record us. I therefore don't know that we should say, via a beacon of some sort, "This is us and this is what we're like". Perhaps it is simpler, and more honest, to say "We'd like to meet you".
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