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I am a 57 year old network administrator for an engineering firm here in Omaha, Nebraska. Some of my hobbies are camping, reading, card playing, and crafts. I'm "into" Native American culture and spirituality. And of course SETI.
Carl Sagan is my hero. After reading his book "Contact" in the early 90's I wrote a small computer program in BASIC that would convert the digits of PI into other number bases on a Commador computer. It would take about 20 minutes to do 500 or so. The computers nowdays would do that same calculation, using a compiled language program, in a few milliseconds.
I started crunching work units right after they developed the screen saver. Right now I have a number of computers here at work that run the screensaver program 24/7. And of course my computer at home is also searching for ET's signal all the time.
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As we humans get better at detecting things, we will eventually find the conditions for life, and then life itself, all over the universe.
We will also detect intelligent life in one of two ways. Either we will discover "it", or "it" will reveal itself after finding us first.
There is evidence (credible ?) that ET has visited this planet in the distant past. If they did maybe they found us to be not so intelligent or interesting. Maybe they are observing us right now, but have some sort of jammer or filter in place so we can not detect their presence. Or maybe they just have a monitor that we can not detect.
We do that with other species now. In fact we do that with each other now. Spy satellites, infrared scopes, silent burglar alarms, to name a few. What would our capability be in a hundred years, two hundred? Or a thousand years or more? What was our technological capability like say a hundred and fifty years ago or so? When we were fighting the civil war? Our capability has increased by a few orders of magnitude since then.
Any concentrated effort now to contact ET by radio waves would be fifty some years too late!! It is already happening. We have been beaming beacons into outer space for over fifty years - radio, TV, shortwave, microwave, military radar and communications. Those signals are just now reaching the nearest stars. They contain a lot of information about our world, i.e Hitler speeches, I Love Lucy programs, etc. I would think that they should be able to figure out that our "beacons" are "intellegent?". Or at least not natural phenomena.
I just want to do my little part in helping mankind find other intellegent life. I would like to see the SETI project expanded. More sky covered, and more of the electromagnetic spectrum covered. |
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