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| I live in Arkansas, love computers, astronomy, and researching history. I also love hunting and the outdoors. I was born 2/25/83, you do the math on how old I am. This is so I won't have to update this thing every year :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, I think life does exist elsewhere in the Universe. I think whoever doesn't is very narrow minded. As vast as the Universe is and as small an area that Earth takes up in that infinite space, there's A LOT more room for other life out there. I think that instead of us discovering "Them", they will discover us, if they haven't already. My personal belief is that they already know about us, and have the ability to contact us, but aren't going to because we are a violent species. We still war with each other, take advantage of the environment, and each other, and don't seem to care about anything else, but ourselves. Not all of us are like this, but enough to scare away a civilization who would want to share advanced technology with us, for fear of what we might do with it. It would be like giving Bobo the chimp a hammer and an atomic bomb as a gift. I don't fear of what technology ET might bring here, or try to do here, because they would have already done it I would think. What I fear is if they bring something here and we misuse it.
2. Despite what I stated above, I think the benefits of what they might teach us would far outweigh the negative aspects. I think instead of sending out a greeting, we should send out an SOS of sorts. Just about every creature is alerted to a distress signal. From the way we are mistreating our planet and ourselves it's not as if we'd be lying to them.
3. I run SETI@home in hopes of helping mankind better understand the universe. I strongly believe that SETI is the most important explorations mankind has ever taken and I like that fact that I’m helping it. I think it's a long shot of finding other intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, at least in my lifetime, but it's better to try then to not try at all. I feel we were placed here to explore, we've ran out of places to explore here on our planet. The only other place to explore and understand is in space. If you have the technology to do something, then why not do it? If you can go to the moon, do |
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