| Personal background |
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Age: 55+
Occupation: Supporting some space related system and keeping crap off my team
Hobbies: Reading, RPG Gaming, Cussing at my computer because of some reason or
another. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I wrote this in 1999 (it being 2017 now) and nothing needs be changed. It still applies.
Yes I think ET is out there, from microbiological to intelligent form. There
is just too much to our own existence for it not to be otherwise. I don't know
that it matters though at this point. Unless they decide to come for a visit, we
may not survive long enough to ever find out or get close enough to do anything
about it, but we have to try. IF we survive, space is our only chance in the
long term - we can't live on this world forever.
----We could find ETI tomorrow or 10,000 years from now. I'm not as optimistic
though that this will bring about big positive changes in humanity although it
does depend on the manner in which we find out - a signal from light years away
is quite a bit different then ETs showing up in our backyard. Ultimately any
change in our behavior has to come from within us, and after the novelty of finding
intelligent life elsewhere wears off, most people will realize that their lives
won't have changed much - we will still pretty much be who we were.
----We should not only send a beacon out, we should be planning on moving off this
planet. Our time here is finite. We need to be doing what we can to become a
space-faring species - even if takes thousands of years, we should be pushing
towards it today....
----As much as I "waste" computer cycles on other things - like computer games - I
welcomed the opportunity to have it do something productive! SETI@home has to
be considered one of the most ingenious ideas of the last 100 years. It's opened
up so many possibilities, not just for finding ETI, but it shows the potential
for humanity to actually get behind and support an idea and it has crossed
nearly every self-imposed boundary that we humans have erected. |
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