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I am 19 years old and am a student of physics at bath university. These days my
free time consists mainly of my girlfriend and my computer, but only one
complains about the other. When i'm not busy with those two i like reading,
watching rubbish telivision, cycling and have started doing kickboxing. Oh, and
of course, i enjoy living the student life (minus the hangovers).
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Everytime i watch a space science fiction program i have this huge desire for us
to be there, for the society i live in to become that technologically advanced.
I have no idea why making alien contact feels so important to me and most people
i talk to dont understand, yet i cant be alone, hollywood, for example, makes
huge amounst of money by playing on peoples almost instinctive desire to
discover what is out there. I find it impossible to look out into the night sky
and not feel moved by what i see, and feel frustrated by how little we can
actually do. That is why things like the seti@home project are so important, it
means you are doing something.
When i was little i used to wish that i had been born in the future, where i
could discover what is really out there, but this of course will never happen.
Some people hope that an advance alien civilization will do all the work and
come to us and that way people feel that there is a hope that they will find the
answers we all seek. I dont think this is likely either, and sometime ago
decided if the future wasnt going to come to me, then i was going to bring the
present to the future, and that is why i find myself doing a degree in
physics, I hope to one day find a way to answer my questions about the universe.
Do i think aliens exist? I hope so, for some reason the idea of an empty
universe is incredibly depressing. Should we transmit a signal for others to
find? Well could aliens find our telivision signal if they were on a distant
planet, using SETI? If so then i dont think we should, but they couldnt then it
is not enough just to assume they are transmiting to us (wont they just assume
the same thing?).Why do i run seti@home? Well as i already said, it just makes me feel as if i
can do something, and my complete respect goes out to the runners of the
program. I think it is a brilliant idea, and one of the few clear demonstrations
of a scheme to benifit mankind as a whole rather than a group of individuals. |
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