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Stephen Collopy
IT Consultant, 33
My Hobbies are Computing, Astronomy, Movies, Art Collector, Memrobillia Collector.
Favorite Author
Carl Sagan.
Most of my time is spent working.. I usually only get a chance to read Carl Sagan books when I'm on holiday, apart from that I am always have my head in a computer book. I consider my profession to be a science just as astronomy is and believe with the computing power available in the next 5 years seti@home won't be able to collect the data fast enough!! (well lets hope). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that life does exist elsewhere in the universe. It's very nieve to think otherwise. Intelligent life? Well nievity creeps in as visions of space craft and close encounters of the third kind type movies cloud our judgement. But around some distant star somewhere out there, there may be life, and maybe simular to our own, depending in climate atmospheric pressure etc. The odds are definatly pointing toward it.
We should send out data, but whats to say that TV pictures and radio signals aren't getting to somewhere in the universe where it can be decoded, or not at all. I think that we should send out data such as climate, pressure, sun data that kind of stuff, and not histories, music and that kind of data as I don't think that it can be understood. All data needs to be mathematical....!
I run Seti at home to increase the chance of finding such data from elsewhere. What to do with that data if anything is found is another question.
I think the project is a good thing but am sure we could invest some more in increasing the awareness to others about how lucky we are on this planet. Millions light years away from any other stars, the atmosphere only 20 miles etc. Scary thought! |
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