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| Personal background |
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For as long as I can remember, I've been looking up at the sky, wondering what is out there.
And I still am absolutely awed with trying to imagine the immenseness of the universe.
When the SETI@home project "came along", it only seemed natural to join in.
Not much later, together with a friend of mine I created the Dutch SETI@home group "Unimatrix 4". By now we are more like a European team, since we've got members from several European countries. http://unimatrix4.com |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have always been very interested in astronomy in general, and I am a science fiction fan.
So the "search for aliens" with the SETI@home project was quite appealing.
My initial reason to run SETI@home was the participation in a scientific project.
Later on I (with a friend) created a SETI@home group: Unimatrix 4 ( http://unimatrix4.com ), in order to compete with other groups.
I do however, have my reservations concerning this specific method of probing the skies.
What I mean: A dolphin is the next most intelligent being on our own planet, and we cannot even communicate with them.
It is therefore quite conceivable that IF there is life on another planet, it might very well be intelligent, but never able to develop any kind of technology, ever... just like our dolphins.
So I guess that we should rephrase what we're doing here; We're searching for extraterrestrial intelligence that is intelligent enough to communicate with us.
Furthermore... I think it would be quite remarkable if any intelligent alien race works with exactly the same kind of radio transmission as we do. And for all we know "they" might still be in their pre-historic era. Or "they" might have evolved so immensely that radio is something to them, like cuneiform writing is to us; obsolete.
Something else: Every time someone (usually a scientist) is talking about what a planet absolutely should have in order to sustain (intelligent) life, they usually mention at least (liquid) water and oxygen.
I find that peculiar. Those conditions are necessary indeed... If you're looking for inhabitants on our own Earth...
Why is it so hard to imagine, that there may very well be intelligent life "out there", that does NOT need oxygen and water, in order to survive ?
I do not believe that just because here on Earth we rely on water and oxygen (amogst other things), life on other planets in the vast universe would be impossible without it. |
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