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| I am a techincal support engineer and website and database developer for a consultancy firm. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Considering the potentially infinate number of planets out there it is quite vain to assume that we are the only sentient life forms in the entire universe. However, considering the vast distances between stars it may be impossible for us to come into contact with other beings. It is also egostistical to assume that said beings would be anything approximating human or even plant / animal by nature. It is possible that such "life" may operate on such a different level of experience from our own that any attempts at communication would fail.
However, there is a chance that somewhere out there they may exist a life form that is close enough in sentience to our own that we would be able to communicate with it.
We should be cautious about sending out a beacon for other races to see. If they think like we do and are more technologically advanced we may be in trouble if we are discovered. How many times in our own history has a more "primitive" civilization been destroyed by a technologically superior one ? Even worse, what if we appear as nothing more than animals to them ? Think of how we have exploited less intelligent life on our own world. We may be lucky and meet with a benign extraterrestrial race. However we should not assume that greater intelligence means greater wisdom, sympathy and understanding. Nor must we assume that greater technology eaquals greater intelligence. |
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