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I live in Denmark, and i am 44 years old.
I was sceptical about the Seti at first, but I have decided to give 100 work units to you for now.
I was worried about the method of avoiding military intelligent signals fro getting through the system, but I am now satifsfied that this is avoided without loss of any E.T. signals.
I am an environment technologist (sort of a short bachelor in engeneering).
I have been repairing computers for a school the past 2 years, and I am currently trying to exspand my computer knowledge.
I often camp out, and combine that with astronomy (mainly meteor observation or the moon), or with bicycling.
To see which work units are being sent out, go to
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/sstatus.html
or
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/calendar/calendar.html
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Yes, there is no doubt that there are many planets out there, and if it have appeared and have survived for so long here, in spite of many chances of it being wiped out, and signs that it perhaps *was* wiped out one time, it must also have appeared many other places.
After all, it lives near black smokers on the bottom of the sea, in boiling hot springs in Yellowstone, and in acidic springs elsewhere.
If we ever find anything, it will be some narrow band radar from them. We probably will have a problem seeing if it isn't one of *our* radars reflected off an asteroid, but there is no other transmission that I can think of that is narrow band and powerfull. And it will probably be something we use, not some exsotic transmission we can't make sense of, if it is usefull here, it will be usefull there too.
2. We might as well transmit.
OK, our TV signals won't reach beyond Pluto (so they won't see our news and entertainment and shun us for that).
I honestly don't think that man will get far from Earth, we'll get space stations and get back to the Moon. Maybe to Mars, but not on a regular basis.
The rest will be space probes. It simply takes too long to get there.
And other civilizations will have the same problem. When you contemplate going somewhere, then it is sort of self defying to select a goal you cannot reach in 5 life times.
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