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From Columbus, MS USA.
Currently 33 years old and counting.
Computer Programmer
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think its possible that extraterrestrial life exists. This form could be from simple organisms to complex ones such as humans. Because on our planet we have found organisms living where we thought nothing could live, leads me to think that its possible we could find some form of life on nearby planets. If there were nearby highly inteligent and advanced civilization of organisms then we would already know about it. I think its more likely that we will discover simple organisms first on our nearby planets.
The benifits, I would guess, is that finding organisms on other planets may give us more information on how we came to exist - I see no negatives. The benifits of finding another highly developed society would be to simply broaden our intelectual view. I see no dangers unless they are as ignorant as a lot of people are about what is right and wrong - check out the religious wars. Hopefully their technology will be in relation to their ignorance.
I think we are already sending a beacon in the form of TV and radio. If we want to send more, then an idea would be to send out many small inexpensive transmitters/recivers into space in several directions. If possible, I would find a way for these robots to create new robots from material in space... thus multilply. These robots could relay messages by chaining through each other back to earth. I don't think the contents of what is sent should be music or any other phsycological content because we don't know their psycology - but we do know they should be intelligent. Instead, it should broadcast patterns that can be understood by an intelectual being and differentiated from natural phenomina.
I run Seti at home because I had hoped with all the computing power that we might find something. I think the project has a small chance of finding anything from ground based receivers. I think we should implement my robot idea :-)
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