| Personal background |
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| grrrr . . . I am angry because I lost my 122 work units when my e-mail adress changed and I didn't remember my seti@home password. It is very sad. That's ok I guess. I am a mac fan stuck on a PC . . . for a little while yet. It isn't a bad computer - Athlon 1.2 ghz on Windows XP, but I just can't wait to get my hands on an ibook some day. . . |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that extraterrestrial life does exist. At the very least, I dearly hope that it exists. The universe is a huge place! We live on one small star in one small galixy! To think that the Hubble, in the great "deep field" shot took a section of sky half the size of the moon and, after an extra long exposure found 300 new galixies . . . Each with millions of stars . . . many with planets . . . There has to be life out there somwhere!
I dearly hope that the first contact will be made in my lifetime, but on the same note, I doubt that it will. Again, the universe is such a big place, and so much of it is probably NOT suitible for life, that I worry that there is no life near enough to make contact with us, or that the life farther away has not been around long enough to send a signal that will have gotten to us by now. Further, that siginal may be too weak to detect, or we may not be looking in the right place in the sky at the right time at the right frequency . . . We know that the universe is not swarming with intelligent life to the point where signals are flying all over the place, so I suspect that most civilizations in the universe live issolated lives - never meeting other civilizations before their eventual demise. However, there just might be a civilization close enough to contact, and if there is wouldn't it be a shame if we missed the message? We ought to look, and we ought to broadcast . . . by all means! |
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