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Greetings earthlings.
I live in the UK and I am a systems management engineer at a publishing company.
My hobbies are many and varied, ranging from shooting and fishing to painting and playing musical instruments(I play in a band). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm running seti@home because I've spent the last 40 years trying to find signs of intelligence on earth and give it up as a bad job so I might as well look to the stars :o)
I think it is bigoted and small minded of mankind to think they are the be all and end all of life in the universe. DON'T YOU PEOPLE WATCH STAR TREK.
We are apallingly bad in our treatment of other life forms on our own planet and even worse toward each other, I wouldn't be suprised if the ALF's out there are masking their signals from us because they know the atrocities we are capable of. Remember this though, it's a gamble that the first race we discover will be worse than us.
When the big discovery is finally made it'll certainly blow the lid off a lot of things, hopefully race and religion based conflict will be a thing of the past (ever the optimist)
I think linguistics is going to be the biggest stumbling block, we can't communicate with orangutangs even though they share 98% of our dna and are reasonably smart, the same goes for dolphins even though it's obvious they have a structured language so I think there should be a very long delay between recieving a signal and sending a response to give us a chance to get a feel of what they are trying to say, if they are anything like us the first signal will probably be a tacky, crass tv show.
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