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| Well I've pretty much been interested in the SETI projects ever since I had first heard of them. I have been involved in the SETI@home project since I think the 1st or 2nd day that the project began. I support this sort of science because it can answer so many questions and it is also a great learning experiance for the science community as well. I am very happy that there are other people out there that are as enthusiastic about the SETI projectes as I am. Right now i'm working on setting up my very own SETI project ARGUS station. So if you are able to donate/offer a reasonably priced receiver that receives maninly between the frequencies of 1420 MHz and 1660 MHz please contact me and maybe we can work something out. I'm primarily interested in Icom and AOR units. This will be the most expensive part of the station being that it could cost as much as US $900 smackers! But I think I can justify that kind of expense for something of this magnitude. I already have a 13 foot antennae ready for me to buy for a hundred bucks plus a 100 mile haul from upstate. My way of conducting SETI research will vary from the way the SETI Institute conducts theirs. They seem to be more interested in what is called source drift listening and I choose to go at it as a direct source research which is where I will have an additional motor on the antennae that will compensate for the earth's rotation as time progresses so that the transmissions that I receive will constantly stay on source instead of drifting off. Personally I can't wait for the discoverey of another life and or another intelligent life(more so intelligent life). My main concern is that they will be like us in the way that we tend to treat lower forms of life. I'm not saying that everyone on this rock disrespects lower life forms but for the main part we seem to not have a second thought on the life or death of other creatures around us. |
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I think I was born in the wrong time period because it is my dream to be able to travel not only through other star systems but other galaxies as well. Obviously though any sort of intergalactic travel that we achieve on our own would be thousands of years off :-( O well that doesn't mean that I can't make contributions towards the realization of that dream. The people of SETI are in my opinion Terran's finest citizens which have come to be called SETIzens. Well if you can help me with the receiver thing please contact my via e-mail. My e-mail addy is as follows:
Stinkfoottoenail@home.com the name is a long story so nevermind about it. Drop me a line with your thoughts if you would like and we could talk astrophysics or SETI some time. Thank you for taking the time to read my stuff.
1. Absolutely, if there wasn't any other for of life then why are we here why are we so special? Humans will probably discover it by them contacting us not us contacting them I think. It would be pretty much impossible to accuratley imagine what another intelligent being would look, sound, and feel like but they'll probably contact us via our primitive form of communication known as Radio. Well you and I had better hope that they're friendly!
2. Why not? What if some other civilization is also listening but not transmitting like we would expect them to do? I guess we should send just general information like teaching them our languages, cultures, customs, beliefs, and tell them how we always blame things on El Nino :-)
3. I run SETI@home for the scientific aspect and magnitude of this project. It isn't like the Human Genome project which tells us more about ourselves but the discoverey of other beings would completely alter the coarse of history and cultures of the world literally overnight. |
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