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I am a 1957 vintage computer professional with a keen desire to travel in space.
I live in Australia where we are very fortunate to have excellent astral viewing conditions due to the large areas of limited light sources to dilute the incoming waves.
I have spent considerable time through my life just staring into the night sky and contemplating what may be out there.
SETI has given me a vehicle to focus some of this wonder and also assist in what may prove to be an absolute waste of time....who cares. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe ET's will exist and if humans like Steven Hawking, (notwithstanding those brilliant minds which came before), can eventuate after a very small span of time in a universe which is in itself huge, what might exist in universes beyond our own limited comprehension.
If some one can show me the 'last petrol station' at the edge of eternity, I will immediately have cause to stop believing.
It would be naive of us to assume we are the only viable life form, let alone the most intelligent, in what we know and understand of our own universe.
I think we should put transmission beacons 'out there' in an attempt to measure the effect space has on our current method of communication and every space probe which outlives its usefulness in orbits around planets be reprogrammed to send out cylcic radio signals into the void, after their paths are redirected to the less cluttered regions of the solar system. This would serve two purposes 1) to give others signs of life and 2)give us an idea of the capability of our own communications equipment. I guess we are also assuming that the way we communicate is that which a potentially higher life form could be using. Does this stand the test of scientific theory.
I believe we need to better understand what deeper space does to communications.
If any discovery takes place at all, it will likely be us discovering that we have been discovered a long time ago. |
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