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D. F. Collins is a writer, both technical and creative. He is 32, lives in East Vancouver, and enjoys simulated human hunting in CounterStrike and playing with kittens.
He's worked as an infanteer, security guard, bouncer, club & mobile dj, programmer, graphics handler, Web designer, and all around document design and editing guy.
David is interested in cosmology, planetary geology, and the genesis of life on Earth. He also likes Poe, Lovecraft, Baudelaire, and The Beat. Chomsky and McLuhan are good, too. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I don't think we'll find anything in this first attempt at detecting EI. But it is important to start with a solid first attempt, work out the kinks, advance the sensitivity, and design the next phase. My vote is for integrating cosmology, planetary geology, and evolutionary biochemistry to a point that we could look at distant planets, and figure out from their light whether there was any exotic chemistry, promise of rich mineral resources, etc.
I'm all for mapping out the universe, too... the new Gravitational Wave Observatories (most use some version of the Laser Interferometer) that are being built and launched this decade offer a great chance to do that. Along with that, we should be mapping our local arm of the galaxy, looking closely at our neighbour stars, and sending short-range (up to 20 light years) AI probes to do the looking for us. For this we will need fusion and a commitment to multi-generational projects in science.
The real question isn't "Is there intelligence out there?" That, for me, is a given. The question isn't even "Can we make contact?", although that is an important question. The real question is if humans can become wise: can we survive long enough to recognize a fellow intelligence from centuries past. We can hope, though. |
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