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| I'm a 23 year old computer hardware technician and College student. I'm a motorbiker, hiker, jogger, mountainbiker... I enjoy cooking and I'm pretty decent at it if I do say so myself. I am interested in languages and I am trying to teach myself four new ones - German, Spanish, French and Latin. I tend to spend a lot of time on the computer - being a computer tech and all - go figure. I tend to be mechanically inclined although I seem to easily catch onto anything that I try my hand at. I have three vehicles - two of which are out of commission and the third isn't far behind. As much as I'd like to fix them and as easy as it would be for me I'm running into the biggest problem that everyone in British Columbia is running into right now - lack of work and money The taxes are too high for what we're getting... Among other things. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Q) Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are teh possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
A) I feel that, yes, there is other worldly life in this universe - wether it's intelligent is yet to be seen. We are simply too small, primative and volatile to comprehend who or what is really out there in the universe - let alone find it. For example, the life may not even exist as carbon based - why can't intelligence exist as energy of one form or another or as combination of energies. We as modern humans seem to view life through a telescope - but we're all looking in the wrong end. Narrow complacent minds, ratial and religious bias, selfishness - among many other things - all work against the odds of us finding anything that doesn't come along and SMACK us upside the head. At at this point in our existance there are too many obstacles to us finding the "intelligent" life that many of us crave knowledge of.
If a probe is ever sent to Jupiter's Io - there will definately be a discovery of life - conventional or sulfur based - Io is already thought to have all the properties that are conducive to bacterial earth life save for sunlight. This does not present a significant barrier to life in my view as there are already life forms on earth that survive quite well in the deepest ocean trenches by living off of a heat source - volcanic vents and the earth itself. Io's life forms could have developed in a suprising variety of other ways I am sure. So, yes - life will very likely be discovered inside of Io. The only hold back is the political, financial and curiosity restrictions that our society has placed on itself.
Back to the topic of Intelligent life. If we want to discover intelligent life I feel we will need to go far beyond our current technology into the realm of space fabric manipulation and antimatter energy production, life extending techiniques such as genetic manipulation and healthy living will have to beco |
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