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I'm 55 years old and not too old to have been left out of the computer generation. I'm a business owner locally , dealing with customers from all types of backgrounds. One of my hobbies is computer programming. I'm largely self taught although I studied computer programming in its infancy during the 60's, My business runs on software I wrote and implemented over the years.
I've always been interested in space and have pondered whether we are alone. Before Seti@home became available I already decided in my own mind that we are not alone in our galaxy and certainly not alone in the universe. My sincere hope is that we will make contact in our lifetime, but I am not overly optimistic because of the large distances involved and the fact that our comunication efforts represent so a miniscule slice of time that it is highly unlikely ET will be there to hear us. |
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I stated previously that it exists, but we may not discover it during my lifetime. The benefits are immense! Contact would give us a greater sense of our place in the order of the cosmos. I think dangers would be few. If there were evil ET's lurking out there with more advanced technology than ours, they would have visited us by now and would have destroyed our planet.
I love the Seti@home project. I'm still in awe that we can make sense out of random space noise. I truly hope that funding can be found that would enable the project to examine signals from all the visible sky and not just a small slice.
Now that astromers are finding out what it takes for a sun to have earth like planets, why does not Seti@home direct is receiver to specific locations in space that have a higher probability of intellent life? |
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