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| Hi, well, erm not much to say really. I'm 28 and from the West Midlands of England. For health reasons that I don't like to get into I haven't been able to work for a while and so to pass my time I like to browse the net and learn. My hobbies are computer and video games and reading almost anything. I find ancient far eastern culture very interesting, especially the parallels seen between modern and ancient thinking. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I cannot believe that we alone are sentient in the universe - I think that contemplating that as a possibility can be arrogant. ETI could come in many forms, some, I'm sure, that we have yet to discover or imagine. Whole civilisations may exist at energy levels that we simply can't observe, at least at distance. One might argue that a sure sign of intelligence from an alien race would be the active avoidance of our detection. Rather like Star Trek's Prime Directive, if an alien civilisation respects our belief systems and culture, then it surely couldn't allow us to detect them, because of the unbalacing effect such knowledge would have on our world, on religion in particular.
2. Yes, I think we should transmit a beacon. You wouldn't want your neighbour's view of you to be constructed solely of what they hear you watching on the tv! If ET can receive our tv and other radio signals and decode them (which shouldn't be hard) then that's how we should contact them. Yet maybe they'd just ignore that as more of the same. Pictures say more than words if you can't read. We have such a diverse collection of culture on this globe that selecting what to send could be a mammoth and neverending task.
Personally, I'd say, "Welcome fellow being. We invite you to visit our home planet, to exchange information and to learn from one another. Bring backup."
3.I run SETI to be efficient. Too much CPU power is being wasted these days - I might as well use my spare cycles for a reason. Not to mention the energy being wasted. Although leaving my PC(s) on overnight just to run SETI kind of ruins that. :-\\ I think the project is a great idea and hope that it goes on to use the world's otherwise wasted CPU cycles searching for ET for years to come. I just wish I'd joined earlier...
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