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I'm a 16 years old high school student from Sydney, Australia. My family and I moved here from Fuzhou, China in December 1995. I have lots of hobbies and the closest one to aliens and extraterrestrial life is watching The X-Files. I stumbled upon SETI@home by accident. I was browsing through the Science and Tech section on the Guinness World Records website one day and I saw under the "Largest Computation" heading "SETI@home has reached 890 billion billion floating point operations as of July 2001". I didn't know what "SETI@home" was at that time and i still don't understand what a "floating point operation" is but a sentence with 2 "billions" next to each other is a real eye catcher so I click "more". I was reading the extended description when the last sentence really got my attention; "Participants download a free scanning program in the hope of detecting signals from extraterrestrial civilizations." I thought hey thats pretty neat, I could be part of a record and help out in something that will have uses in the future, so I went and downloaded SETI@home.
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| I do think there is life beyond Earth. I mean think about it, space is limitless (I'm think thats right), and out of the billions of planets in space only ONE planet, Earth, has suitable environment for life forms to survive and evolve? I'm pretty sure there are others. It's just a matter of time before humans make contact with them. Space is the future for human race due to various reasons and some I'm not very proud to say, so making efforts to understand whats beyond our current limits of knowledge is admirable. Frankly I do not think SETI will find any traces of extraterrestrial life in my life time but until we can solve the problem of the effect of zero gravity on a human body and a spacecraft that can travel at many times the speed of light we will have to stay on Earth and hope that they or their signals will come to us first. |
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