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Formerly of New Zealand, currently living in West Virginia while I work on my doctorate in English. 31, married to Tim (software engineer), and a big collector of Morgantown glass. A BIG scifi reader, especially more recent feminist stuff. I recommend Connie Willis and Mary Doria Russell.
I also live with Lucie the cat, who is just about alien as you can get.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Anyone who lives with a cat knows extraterrestrial life already exists & has infiltrated our homes. We're pointing the dish in the wrong direction!
That said, of course ET life exists - statistically it would be weird if we happened to be the ONLY planet in the whole universe populated with organic life. The discovery of water on Mars seems to me a big indicator that it's gotta be elsewhere too. Whether off-earth life is technologically advanced enough (or maybe primitive enough) to be able to receive radio signals and actually reply is another matter. It could be bugs, or jellyfish, or something that can never leave its own gravity well, or something that lives faster-than-light.
As far as the beacon goes, just remember what happened to almost every indigenous civilization that was "discovered" by other nations in the age of imperialist expansion. In fact, think about introduced plants and animals (which drove many of New Zealand's native fauna to extinction). I'm not sure we own the sole patent for stupidity or maliciousness in the universe. Nevertheless, we're doing a sufficiently good job of destroying the planet ourselves -- maybe we need some sort of intervention. |
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