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| I'm Pete, a 41 year old from York , England. Though I'm not a scientist or involved in anything IT by trade, I am interested in astronomy & cosmology and that sort of thing. My main hobbies (other than running SETI@HOME of course..) are Morris Dancing and Folk Music. I play melodeon for world famous 'Ebor Morris Men' here in York, and I can occasionally be seen playing in local pub music sessions around York, notably in The Maltings most Tuesday evenings. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do think 'ET' is out there but I doubt we will find it with our current level of technology. With so many millions (billions?) of galaxies, each with so many millions (billions?) of stars, I think it would certainly be more worrying to find ourselves alone in the universe than to find ET. Was it Arthur C Clarce said something along the lines that.. "there are two possibilities. Either we are alone or we are not and both are equally worrying"
That being said, any signal will have taken quite some time to get here: Perhaps millions of years. The 'ET' that sent it could be long gone by then. I want to believe that despite Einstein and relativity, and given a million or so years that mankind (assuming he's still here!) will have come up with something better than radio. Remember the Victorians when developing rail travel belived that the human lungs would collapse at speeds over 30 mph and as late as the 1930s people beleived that the speed of sound could not be broken by an aircraft. I also want to beleive that the 'light barrier' will fall some day. If it is as impenetrable as relativity currently implies, then there will probably be a lot af very frustrated 'ETs' out there all convinced they are alone too. |
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