Profile: Nathan Rogers

Personal background
I'm a communications technician specialising in internet services. I like to play with technology. I run SETI@home 24/7.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I believe that life exists on at least one other cellestial body in the universe, and more than likely on thousands of planets. The first contact will probably be fossilized remains of simple life forms - perhaps from life that 'never quite got started'. We may even discover this upon man's first retrieval of substance from Mars. If the extra terrestrial life is intelligent and of higher intelligence than homo sapien then it is likely that they may prefer to remain hidden from us until we develop sufficient technology to detect their presence. If human beings were to come into contact with other intelligent beings, we would surely steal every ounce of their technology for our own gain. Now that would be cheating. Just by leaving us alone and only observing us we could in fact be enhancing their intellectual base. Or maybe they have found us and are on their way - either to help us or exploit us. One would hope that the more intelligent a being becomes, the more appreciative that being becomes of sustaining any life.
If there is life out there on a 'competitive playing field' with us then it is likely that they would not have discovered us. By the time they developed technology to be able to contact us they would have detected transmissions from this planet already. There is absolutely no need to set up a beacon. We cannot defend ourselves from an asteroid let alone an attack from an intelligent alien craft.
Life evolved into a brain which invented a computer which helped the brain think faster. Millions of brains joined together each with their computers creating essentially one big brain with a million times the power of a single brain. This brain is still growing. One day this brain won't even need the planet Earth to keep it alive. This is why I use SETI@home.
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