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| I'm a 29 year old librarian in northern Ohio. Trained as a musician with a penchant for astronomy, physics, biology, botany and myrmocology, I can now gleefully label myself a music geek, library geek and science geek, as needed. I'm honored to be a part of SETI@home, as it will be my computer which discovers the data set that proves conclusively that we have made contact with another intelligent form of life. Sorry all, them's the breaks. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The immensity of the universe all but requires a tremendous and vast array of independant species. The thought that we're it is not at all stupid, but rather ignorant. With absolutely not a shred of anything resembling statistics to back me up, I figure it's likelier that I'll win the Ohio lotto every week for the rest of my life than for Homo sapiens to be the only form of intelligent life in existance.
We're likely to discover other species through communication rather than contact, unless they are far advanced beyond our technological level (which is a perfectly valid possibility). Interstellar travel is too costly, difficult and most of all time-consuming to be practical for humanity at the moment. Hell, we haven't even been to the moon in 30 years or so...
On to the benefits and dangers. Assuming our contact will be communicative, we would likely trade information. As knowledge truly is power, it all would depend on how we use said info. Nuclear energy is great, but a bomb or meltdown proves rather dangerous. It will depend on the nature of the information received and, of course, how we (if we) then apply it.
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