| Personal background |
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| I'm just an independent thinker. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I think extraterrestrial life do in fact exist. But INTELIGENT life could be harder to find... About discovering it, I think it would be only possible by direct exploring with deep space probes and automated machines (rovers). I think that the chances of discovering extraterestrial inteligent life by analysing the sky the way we are doing are quite low. But, they're not null. And it gives us all the feeling of doing something. I think that's the great achievement of this project. Should you give up on this? NO! Absolutely not. Should we try other means? Obviously.
About benefits and dangers... Thats the American way of thinking! :) It´s all seen that way! ;) Well, should you consider the benefits or dangers of deep sea exploring? Or the 1498's Portuguese Great Discovers of the new world. Can you think of giving new worlds to the world from a benefit/danger point of view? Ok, I understand that people look at space exploring issues with a "sci-fi" point of view, deeply influenced by the Hollywood movies... But we have to move on!
2. I think that should be transmitted a signal for others to find, even that it should be considered a shot in the dark... :) There's always the (minimum) possibly that someone could detect it (and among them, humans, that is, ourselves!). Since the 60's (and even since earlier...) that humans are sending signals of their presence on earth. With or without conscience of it. There is a small chance that we could detect our own signals on this Seti project! (Yes, I know: contact!:)) But, anyway, I think it could have interest to send a permanent beacon with concrete information on human-like aspect.
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