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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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All SETI projects ( the new, the old, the as yet unimagined) are some of the few ways that we, as a species, express a minimal RATIONAL interest in the Cosmos. I am ever so glad to donate the forgotten cycles on my PC to the search and I hope that we can find other ways to use the global net down time - a resource that outstrips the availible computational up time by leaps and bounds - for higher purposes before it too is "mined" by agents of the economy.
As desktop power increases to tremendous magnitude in the next decade, this resource will become truly monsterous and it is absolutely fantastic the a SETI project is here first! Bravo to the creators and all the participants!
That said, i think it is pretty obvious that we have very little to add to any Cosmic discussions because we clearly can't even handle simple things like politics, food, planetay warming, power generation....you know, the easy stuff. We do not agree on most of the simplest things - what we are, our recent past, the stupidity of cosmological claims of the world's religions -- it just goes on and on. Better for us to listen real hard and try to learn something....
I am told that sufficeintly bright pulsed laser signals are a real possibility for interstellar signalling...and I am sure that there are other tricks...we should be working very had to listen across the entire electromagnetic and gravitational wave spectra...even neutrino signals...LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN. Odds are that if there are any civilizations out there - some will be very much older than ours and survivors from whom we can learn much. IF we just will listen. So that is my feeling about SETI type projects...though it might be fun to make a really big series of explosions (off planet) to make a one time shot at "HEY, anybody out there!!"...but that would just be for fun.
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