Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
1.9The chances of extraterrestial life NOT existing seems to demonstrate the conceited side of human reasoning. I believe the Carl Segan inspired lines from "Contact": "It would be a terrible waste of space if there wasn't anyone else". In the case of intelligent life, one might hope that there is a universal concept of right and wrong, that they would have a sense of God or at least something greater than themselves and that they would sense that in us. There would be a danger on both sides that the other would do harm to the other through fear or ignorance. And there’s always the danger that someone is out to do you harm. I personally hope for something like the Vulcan/Startrek first encounter. Hopefully both sides will deal with it in a sensitive and calm manner (by human definitions).
2.9Should humans transmit a beacon? We seem be be doing that every day, sending rf out into space, orbiting manmade objects, sending probes out to neighboring planets.
3.9I run seti@home to help the effort. It doesn’t seem to be a matter of if as much as when. I’d like to see the “when†happen in my lifetime.
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