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| Hi, I'm 15, I hail from smoggy Los Angeles, California. I've been interested in astronomy, physics, math, etc... As long as I can remember. I also have tried my hand at programming, in a variety of platforms and languages, and I am currently wrestling with UNIX and Linux |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI@Home caught my eye immediately because, I have always wanted to run a HAM or some sort of radio telescope to listen to the stars, and SETI@Home gave me an oppurtunity to sort of do this, minus the equipment and the responsibility of co-ordinating the whole thing.
I personally think that there is a possibillity that other intelligent life does exsist. Because, if there is so much space, wouldn't it be a waste for only humans to be able to enjoy it? And think about it, if it happened here it can happen some where else with all that space and energy.
Even though I think that life does exsist somewhere out there. I don't think we'll ever find it. For one, everything is way too far out there, and what are the chances we'll be scanning the right part of sky at the right wavelength, frequency, etc.. at the right time? And if we do find a message, the chances of every achieving a dialogue with our new found companions is impossible because, they'd have to be as lucky as we were to find our response and are we willing to wait several thousand, million, or billion years for the answer?
Even after this, I think, we should transmit a beacon or something, for extraterrestrials to find. As to what to send, who knows. There is so much we can say, and how would we know they know what we're saying? The consolation of doing this is that we will leave a message that "we were here" if our species looses its track and goes the way of the Dodo. |
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