| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. If I didn't think some form of ET life exists, why would I participate in this program? When and how we discover ET life depends on the kind of life we find.
a. Bacterial? Maybe from an asteroid encounter or from exploring Mars.
b. Advanced intergalactic species? It'd be up to them on the time and place. Would you want to visit someone with nuclear tipped weapons pointed at each other?
c. Something like us? Then we'd receive their signals via something like this project (albeit many light years from when the signal was originally sent).
The benefits & dangers of such a discovery depends on how humanity will react, which of course depends on whose reacting.
2. What kind of beacon to send? Aren't we already sending out all of our 'highly intelligent' mass media programming by default? Nothing like having Adolph Hitler being the first TV signal somebody else probably will receive. Talk about bad first impressions... Maybe we should send out a message/signal that says, "Ignore the bad TV programming you received earlier, we didn't know what the heck we were doing!"
3. Why did I join? Since it's the only legitimate ET search in town with our present technology, that's why I joined.
My suggestions? Add more sensors, satellites, equipment...
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