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I am a 23 year old Electrical Engineering student at the University of Kansas and an active member of Triangle Fraternity. Astronomy has always been a huge interest on mine - If I had it all to do over again, I would have majored in Physics & Astronomy.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I never truly believe anything I cannot prove, but I think it is extremely likely that extraterrestrial life exists. My only doubt is how common intelligent extraterrestrial life is that is actually able to produce technology that we can detect. There may be an abundance of life out there, none of which intelligent. Or maybe much of it is intelligent, but does not have the technology. OR maybe most technologically advanced civilizations wipe themselves out with nuclear war within a few hundred years. Those are my greatest concerns. However, if we do discover intelligent civilizations, I think there is a great possibility of achieving it with an operation like SETI.
As to the possible benefits and dangers, I think the benefits would most likely outweigh the dangers. Any civilization we are likely to encounter will most likely be far more advanced than we are. Our technological evolution has only just began, while some civilizations may have invented "radio" thousands of years ago, and since have progressed to mastering interstellar travel and such. I highly doubt that a civilization that advanced would waste their time invading our planet or any such other hollywood inspired paranoia. I think its far more likely they would send us information on how to create technology that would benefit our species. But the greatest benefit in my opinion would be turning every narrow minded moron's world inside out with such a discovery.
For the above reasons, I think trasmitting a beacon would be an excellent idea.
I run SETI@home because I feel obligated to help with what COULD be the most important experiment conducted in the history of man. Even if it finds nothing, at least that might lead the way to answering the fundamental question of whether we are alone in the universe, even if the answer is sadly, "yes".
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