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| Personal background |
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51-year-old science geek with a right-brain streak, interested in music, vacuum tubes, theremins, and a long-term fascination with space. My techie website is located at http://dogstar.dantimax.dk/index.htm
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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"1. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists?"
Yes. The odds that we are the only intelligent life in a universe as vast as ours is vanishingly small, to the point of absurdity.
"If so, when and how will humans discover it?"
It's more likely that an intelligent life-form capable of such communication will contact us, when we're ready. A corollary to this position is that we're already being observed; the absence of such contact is an indication that we're not yet ready for for it.
"What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?"
Benefit: entering the galactic community. Danger: none. If ill intent were on the agenda, we would have long been toast.
"2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?"
Yes. It would be an indication of willingness to face the fact that we are little more than a smudge on a smoke particle.
"If so, what information should we send?"
A simple binary number sequence to indicate that we figured out how to count.
"3. Why do you run SETI@home? "
Got tired of flying toasters. ;-) Seriously, to be part of that subset of humanity willing to enter into the galactic era. Part of me also hopes that this effort, using an essentially antiquated communications technology, will encourage the discovery of "sub-space" (to use a Star Trek term) communications that bypass the limitations of EMF-based radio technology.
"What are your views about the project?"
An admirable effort, and evidence that humans /can/ cooperate if they set their minds to it.
"Any suggestions?"
None at this time. |
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