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Personal background |
Gender: Male
Race: Negro
Age: 27.728767123287671232876712328767
Earth years (as of Sept 10, 2003)
Current Location: N 25° 01.324' \| W 077° 22.765'
Occupation: Technological Interface Designer/Engineer
Interests: Developing ways to achieve a perfect balance between what we homo sapiens define as nature w/ human engineered "technologies" |
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
It would be quite pompous of us to think that this Earth contains the only forms of life in the universe.
The question that remains is whether other intelligent beings would want to interface with such barbaric and holistically primitive creatures as we.
Leaders of an advanced species would most likely avoid this planet like the plague. Why? We actively destroy the only place that we have to live on, as well as ourselves, without regard for future generations. Even our different races still can not get along with each other! How can we truly expect them to believe that we are not intolerable of differences? Also bear in mind the way in which we have destroyed and eliminated numerous species of animals. Who would really want to associate with such beings?
Pehaps we are unknowingly being given the silent treatment.
To put things in perspective, suppose we find that Mars does have life on it, but also find out that the surviving beings were responsible for scarring and mining their planet into oblivion. Would we willingly embrace and form a relationship with a known destructive species? Of course not.
As well, from another point of view, we should also be cautious in what we are looking for. We can be easily taken advantage of by an advanced race, not even in terms of physical warfare, but through psychological and spiritual manipulation. We have yet to figure out how the entire human organism truly functions and yet we are willing to take the chance to put ourselves in jeopardy. The potential for meeting new species also brings with the potential for new threats. We just assume that all will be fine.
SETI’s cause is outstanding (so I will do my part), but until we all work together on the overall flaws of the primary species on this planet I would think that maybe all we will ever hear from outer space is dead air.
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