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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do you run SETI@home?
I run SETI@home because I can hardly think of any better way of spending my spare computer time. The SETI@home is an excellent project, not the least for the interest it generates in SETI and science in general. Everyone may, in principle, participate.
Thoughts about ETI
I think opinions on whether ETs are "out there" are meaningless unless supported by scientific fact/evidence. I don't know. I don't think anyone does. But hey, that's what we're here to find out in the first place! I do think SETI is worthwhile, and SETI@home is one of several excellent SETI projects. I certainly hope that SETI will some day find ETs, but whether or not this will happen, I don't know. It depends on a lot of factors, like if ETs exist, and if they do, if they transmit. Benefits of finding ETI are immense, the most important ones being to learn:
1) that we're not alone in the Universe.
2) that it's possible to have advanced technology without self extinction.
3) (possibly) ways of avoiding self extinction.
4) (possibly) how to make major leaps in all natural sciences.
5) (possibly) other technological benefits.
The only possible danger I see in finding ETI is religious instability.
I don't think human kind is advanced enough as a technological society for it to be useful to transmit anything yet.
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