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I'm a 41 year old SBE certified Television Broadcast Engineer. I currently
work for a company in Clearwater Florida that builds TV news vans and
satellite trucks. My hobbies are varied, but include Amateur (HAM) Radio,
boating, camping, mountain biking, hunting, fishing.... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do believe that there is life in the universe other than that on our planet.
Even if you believe in a Judeo-Christian God, it is totally unrealistic and
arrogent to believe that WE are the only intelligent lifeforms that such a
being would have created. I think that the work that SETI does to search out
that life is valuable, but I am not totally sure that SETI will be the ones to
discover "ET". I also do not think that any discovery will be made in the next
100 years. If the other lifeforms in the galaxy are intelligent, more advanced
than us, and (more importantly) benevolent, I believe that they will leave us
alone until we get out of our MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) phase. I am
more prone to believe that "first contact" will be made through some future
un-manned space probe (most likely) or through some future manned space
exploration. This is not to say that SETI will not be playing a part in our
future contact with "ET", but I am not convinced that searching the hydrogen
line is going to acheive the desired goal.
I do believe we should be sending out a beacon, and the simple message it
should carry would be a series of pulses counting from 1 to 9. That would
be the most simple way to demonstrating that we have rudimentary intelligence -
first, that we have the knowledge necessary to transmit a signal, and second,
that we have a numerical system. Anything beyond that can be discussed once
we make first contact. Let's get their attention first, then tell them who and
what we are.
The only fear I have with meeting "ET" is the gap between their technology and
our own. Who says that the first extraterrestrial life forms we meet are
going to like us, or not consider us food, or insignificant. I would hate to
be the bug on some spacecraft's window, you know?!!
I run SETI@Home simply because I think it is a totally cool idea, it's fun,
and I have the extra computing cycles to contribute to the "cause".
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