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Hi there, i come from Tampere/Finland. I'm 28 and working at Sonera Corporation as an software support engineer. My hobbies are nature/hiking/weather, computing and gaming, music in all forms - both listening and playing (and analyzing for the pleasure of my friends :). I belong also to the group Teletapit, which is my work team's group.
Actually i'm not so sure about ET's altough the statistics and propabilities haunt in my mind and i'm commonly crazy for all kinds of science stuff!
The one thing i know is: Science-fiction tends to become science later on... that's true if we are thinking about for example space flights from the middle age's or just last centuries point of view. Our science develops faster and faster. The more efficient computers and mathematical formulas allow us to discover new innovations always faster.
Wherever this leads to...today we are calling it "science-fiction"...
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) It might :) I couldn't say YES or NO, it's just matter of playing with propabilities to me. I think we'll not discover anything yet... maybe soon after couple of decades while our technical experteese is growing and giving us more possibilities to scan surrounding space better. This project is a major step on that road. It might give us hints and additional information about signals and their sources in space. We could find something but at least we know, where there's no use to search from :) Benefits of discovering alien civilization are hard to predict...still there might be many kinds of lifeforms between us and another civilization, but we have no means to find them without those bacteria sending us some signals :)
Well, if the another civilization is higher than us, there's probably two options, either they support our development by sharing their science and technical/biological/medical information or then they just realize how dangerous and unpredictable species we are and they just wipe their alien ass with our puny civilization :) So, hard to see they'd at least give us anything for free, but maybe this feeling is just very human: "I wouldn't!" :)
Still, what could we even offer to them...
2) But we have? Pioneer probes are leaving our system as we speak :) I think that the information included in them are ok. Just basic symbols and information, which can be most surely intepreted by another intelligence.
My god, whatever else - at least don't send them our DNA . . . !!
3) That's a good question i have asked myself too. Maybe it's just the scientific hunger and curiosity which drives us all forward. I don't know if i have any suggestions, but at least i find it very limited to scan space with only Arecibo which is a fixed telescope. It is greatly limiting our sight in space! |
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