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I am a 51 year old disabled Wisconsinite. I have no occupation, or spectacular hobbies. I spend most of my time (that the relentless arthritic pain allows), on my computer, either "exploring" the internet, or playing computer games, or eating (alot). And when I am not using my computer for any serious length of time, I have been running SETI@home, exclusivly, for several years now.
I simply hope that I live long enough to see the inevitable day that extraterrestrial intelligence is undenyably discovered. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe there is an ever increasing mountain of evidence that life can exist and thrive in even the most hostile environments. Environments that would instantly kill humans and many other species. Yet there they are, on this planet, clearly documented. Thus, the chance for life to form on other planets appears to be ever more likely. At least in the forms considered "lower" than humans.
However, there seems to be less of a chance of "intelligent" life forms evolving, if you consider the many hundreds of millions of years that our planet has had very large and complex animals that never developed into "technological" creatures. There seems to be a need for more "extraordinary" circumstances to spawn the "techological brain." Nevertheless, there are so many stars in our galaxy alone, that the chance of the "intellignet" life form are very good. Not to mention, the billions of other galaxies, which would make the chances virtually certain.
Transmitting signals would be good, I think, because if we don't, neither will they. Perhaps short "explosive" bursts of high intesity radio signals that are packed with as much information as possible (that would clearly identify it as "unnatural"), aimed in the most likely neighborhoods of stars. That way, costs of transmitting may be kept down a bit.
I wish to be part of the potentially most important discovery in human history. |
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