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I'm a 24 year old IT professional working in education, and also attending Oglala Lakota College for an official IT degree! It's only taken a few dozen years...what can I say, I like college-life...
I'm more or less an official nerd, and hobbies are all about boring(not to mention I live in the middle of nowhere...), but I play on the computer, work with my horses, and...well, that's about it :D
Anyway, that's enough about me, so here's shouts from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation! Crunchin' away at the big IF... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Oh yeah...it would be rather a rather arrogant assumption to presume otherwise. A universe that is beyond the most creative and over-active of imaginations, and we are but a speck...who's to say there isn't another speck, or two, or two billion, around...
As far as when and how we'll discover it...well, this is probably the ONLY way that we will have a clue until something smarter than us comes over for a visit. But, the thing we have to keep in mind, is that other life-forms may not be as advanced as science-fiction says...we might stumble across a culture stuck in the "dark ages", and can "enlighten" them...for whatever that's worth...Benefits? The benefits are beyond me and take a far wiser man than me to see them all...but just off the top of my head, there are three major benefits to discovery of ET: 1)Intellectual(exchange of ideas), 2) Economical(exchange of goods between worlds), 3) Social(Maybe that will be the cure to racism among humans??? With something that isn't our own species around, maybe we'll finally just get along...)
Dangers? Those are scary to even THINK about...old images of people walking up to little green men in jump suits are nice and all...but the thing I can't get out of my head is when us Natives were swept over by Smallpox...something the Europeans could handle ok, wiped us out by the hundreds of thousands. And, what happens if our friendly alien turns out to be a Columbus? Landing and demanding...decapitating any who were too slow, or didn't please him...can we stand up to the War of the Worlds? Was H.G. Wells just being pessimistic when he showed that the only way to defeat an invasion was beyond our control? Questions that beget questions...as I said, it will take a far wiser man than me to see the benefits/dangers...but both, from what little I can see, gives a strange rollercoaster excitement...
2. Aren't we already making an attempt at this? What about the plaque on the moon? Or the engravings on voyager...all of these are just bottles thrown into the ocean |
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