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Member of WWSETI (World Wide SETI)
I'm a 38 y/o man living in Montana. I enjoy computer's and spend a lot of time on my computer. I would rather not speak of my occupation...mostly because I am retired (yes, at age 38). I play around with website design for friends, and love anything to do with space and science. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life exist? I say yes it does...if you look out in the sky at night on a clear day away from any city lights you see what looks like millions of stars...in actuality, many of those stars are galaxies filled with 100's of 1000's of stars. Our own galaxy has about 100,000 stars...and astrologers have found stars with planets orbiting them. Now, with our "limited" capabilities of seeing distant solar systems...in just our part of the galaxy...with millions of other galaxies in the universe, it is very likely that there is life on at least one of those solar systems.
When will humans find it and how? This is hard to say with any accuracy, because of how many solar systems are out there. I would hope it will happen in my lifetime...but if it doesn't I hope mankind will never stop looking. How it will happen is also tough to say, since we are actively exploring space with such devices as the huge Arecibo radio telescope and many other radio telescopes and amature astrologers...and our own space program. I only hope that when it happens, mankind is grown-up enough to not treat the encounter as a threat...but we are a very conflictive race and I am sure there will be a division of humans on threat or friendship with the extraterrestrial beings we will eventually meet.
What are the benefits and dangers of such a discovery? Benefits would be, in my opinion, advancement in extraterrestrial actions (space flight, exploration and other things about space. We may get information about diseases we currently have no cure for here...or find new technologies that will allow us to repair our polluted world and stop pollution altogether. Dangers are mostly about things we have no idea about currently...perhaps disease from different worlds. We might also find that the exterrestrial life we find is very hostile towards humans...we have to gamble on this and see once it happens. |
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