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| Personal background |
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Greetings fellow SETIers, programmers and hams!
I'm a Visual Basic/MS Access/SQL contract programmer, a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Amateur Radio operator WS1O, and webmaster for Middlesex Amateur Radio Society/Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Service (MARS/CARES) site at http://www.w1edh.org/
I live in Middletown, CT, USA, I'm single, born 12/16/1957, my office telephone is 860-808-1285
E-Mail me at brianb@cmtelephone.com
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Some form of life seems likely somewhere in the universe. Whether there is intelligent life seems probable, but is by no means inevitable. After all, hominid "humans" have only inhabited Earth for perhaps ~1,000,000 years, compared with dinosaurs, which lived for dozens of millions of years yet have been entirely extinct for ~65,000,000 years. As much as it may be a blow to our aggregate ego, it's very likely we homo sapiens are only a barely noticeable "blip" on the geological time line.
If any intelligent life becomes aware of us (more likely through the past century of our TV/radio broadcasts than through purposeful attempts at contact), it seems that such creatures would consider us hopelessly quaint and primitive at best.
Because of the costs of overcoming extreme stellar distances (even if faster-than-light travel is possible, it must certainly be costly in some way), it's doubtful that other civilizations would want to bother with us. Perhaps they may go so far as to transmit a brief "Transmission Acknowledged, Good Luck" type of message, but coming here would probably be seen as a useless project for them. |
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