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| My name is Jason and I live in Houston, Texas. More precisely in Clear Lake, near NASA. I am 23 and work at a print shop that does work for the greater Clear Lake area, including NASA and the Space Center, actually. I read a lot, some fiction and some not. My main interests are in environmental studies, anthropology and theology. That is a very broad scope to what is really just how I feel about the universe. My first loves where astronomy and science fiction, next was the paranormal and religion, then egyptology and judaism, to name some. I'm a pretty laid back person who thinks a lot, but doesn't really take life as seriously as most, or at least I'd like to think I try not to. I'd rather enjoy the ride than grit my teeth and bare it! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
Personally I can't help but cringe just hearing the question regarding the possibility of extraterrestrial life elsewhere! It is a matter of scope. If you look at the recent photos from Hubble of galaxies with backdrops of hundreds of smaller galaxies, and all that light is billions of stars so far away from all the stars we see in our own galaxy...I just can't understand how we could be alone in all of that. It just doesn't seem logical.
As to when and how, who knows? New technology would help, of course. More resources, more funding, blah, blah, blah...
The benefits in my opinion would be many. First it would be a slap in the face of all our petty differences as humans. Second it would launch us into another way of viewing ourselves in the scheme of things. I mean, HELLO!! we are a floating speck in the face of near infinity. And yet we would realize how precious we are in a more profound way than we could today.
The dangers would be the intent of the extraterrestrials, and the changes it would make in our culture as a planet.
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
Well we have been transmitting a beacon for the past fifty or more years. Hitler was one of the first, wasn't he? It's pretty scary to think all those hundreds of thousands of hours of pointless, brainwashing garbage like commercials and other propaganda are just streaming out from us in all directions! No wonder knowone has contacted us yet! So no matter what message we may send, the intent or motive behind the greater part of our humanity is quite clear to anyone up their who just tunes in to the WB or HBO. Pretty sad, really.
Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
I run SETI@home because I feel it is amazing so many more people aren't interested in discovering oth |
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