1) Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benifits and dangers of such a discovery?
Yes, it is mathimatically impossible for it NOT to exist! We will probably not discover extraterrestrials, they will probably discover us. Benifits? Well, we would possible have access to technology way beyond our current technology, also, if the species is not very advanced, we may figure out how life began on earth by studying that planet\\species. Dangers would be if the species was not friendly, but was still very advanced (Armageddon situation).
2) Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
Should we transmit a beacon? Sure, what do we really have to lost. What should we transmit? Well, a spike. If the extraterrestrials used an algorithm to detect signals the same way we did, a simple spike or maybe a pulse would probably do it. Maybe something in morse code.
3) Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
I run it because I have a 1.8ghz processor, which is often idling, mine as well let somebody use it when I'm not. My views? Interesting project, good experiment to try out the distributed computing approach. No realy suggestions.
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