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Background:
I am 30 (as of 2003), incredibly boring and i haven't done anything usefull with my life at all...
Interests:
I like reading SF (as do most of us, i would think), computer games, films, music, etc... like i said, nothing interesting here... :D
Computer Description:
Duron 1GHz (on all the time), PIII-500(on most of the time) and ocaasionally and iBook 500 (doesn't run in background here...) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does ETI exist?
Yes, i think there is ETI out there... the problem i see is that because of the ernormous distances and the relatively slow speed of radio signals, we would have to find a fairly local ETI. ETIs that are a long way from us may have been transmitting for millions of years, but we only see static because those signals haven't reached us yet...
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?
Yes, definately... although we already are anyway... every broadcast of any kind flies off into space at the speed of light... most of it isn't all that powerfull and may be lost in the static of space, but some are very powerful and will probably be detected... if anyone is listening...
we have to remember the limitations of the speed of radio signals though... we have been transmitting reasonably powerful signals for about 60 or 70 years now... at the speed of light that only covers about 60 or 70 lightyears... that is a tiny area in the scale of the universe... it isn't even very much in our own galaxy. Remember, our galaxy is about 100,000 lightyears across...
What possible benefits and dangers are there?
The benefits could be imense, we couldn't possibly go into it here... i could go on all day...
As for the dangers... i think we are probably more dangerous than any species capable of intersteller travel... if they have survived the devolopment of the technology required for space travel, then they are probably a much more peacefull race than us... we are still a long way from being able to say that we aren't about to blow up ourselves with the technology we develope, it is still the primary reason for technological advance...
If they are still as primitive as us, then i find it unlikely that they would have progressed far enough to enable them to travel to our system... in which case, although they may be dangerous, we would only be able to comunicate, not visit each other... |
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