| Personal background |
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City: Waterloo
Occupation: University Student
Hobbies: Computer programming. Playing Star Trek: Armada. Playing Alpha Centauri. Watching Star Trek reruns. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Humans =should= transmit a beacon for any possible intelligent life out there to find.
We sit and listen for any incoming signals from intelligent life because we assume that any life out there is superior to us. What if all alien life is inferior? Or if they're all Vulcans who have decided it is more logical to listen than to the stars than to waste their resources broadcasting their signal in all directions?
If we find it unfeasible to transmit a beacon, why wouldn't other intelligent species come to the same conclusion? Is it possible we're all listening to each other already, except no one has taken the initiative to make a sound?
Other species (if they exist) may consider humans insignificant (just as we consider insects insignificant). Even a simple signal pulse could do it (SETI@home does, after all, listen for such things). Maybe we =can= achieve first contact before Zefram Conchrane launches his Phoenix. |
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