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| Personal background |
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| Greetings, earthlings! Mongo is an advanced life form residing under cover in eastern Pennsylvania, posing as an automation and system integration salesman. When I am not passing Earth's secrets back to the mothership I act as a hobbyist modeling railroads. Occassionally I coach youth ice hockey - it is a wonderful game as played by 14 and 15 year olds! I am also working on another ship - a boat, actually, to explore the aquasphere of your planet. So many wonderful things to learn here, as well!I joined SETI to see how close you are to finding my civilization. Not quite there yet, eh, earthlings? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I believe life in various forms exists in our universe. There could be silicon based life, methane breathers, and a wide variety in between. With the recent ability we have to detect planets in other solar systems, it seems more and more likely we will find planets that can sustain life. I think whatever we find will be very strange to us. I don't expect we will run into bipedal humaniform beings from other planets. Then again, anything is possible. Given the knowledge we presently have regarding space travel, it will be a long time before we actually communicate with an alien race if it is found. Visiting an alien planet is going to take even longer, so I see no immediate danger to either civilization (we could be dangerous to them!). Information we can send is most likely to be understood if it involves what we have perceived to be universal constants - electron mass, PI, euclidian geometry. Social concepts are far harder to codify and explain, and may not ever be understood. Picture data can be sent, but how that data gets reassembled at the other end is far more important than how or what we send. It may all look like garbage to another species. I believe we could easily miss messages because we wouldn't know how to re-assemble binary information sent to us. I run SETI@home because I have always believed the possibility of life on other planets is high (approaching unity), and that we grow as a race when we stretch the limits of our knowledge. |
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