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| My first thought was to explain my background using the usual structure of work achievements or experiences (which has fluctuated from high pressured finance to critical safety emergency work) and then, educational achievements (mainly from a graduate and post graduate level). Followed by long explanations trying to account for periods out of work (as in the current time). Somewhere in the middle of all that, my age would have been revealed, my obsession with Chess, the Internet, and a whole host of other hobbies. Certainly, an element of philosophical and metaphyical tendancies would permeate; not to mention what might or might not appear to be human nature. Then, as if, hit by a bolt from the blue, a thought struck me that it seems all irrelevant. As it would do to any reasonable person examining a map of the universe or the sky at night, together with constellations and the Milky Way, even just focussing on Arecibo scanned region, everything seems minor and insignificant. Hence, it is the vast infinity of Space, and all that it contains, that would make all pale into insignificance and irrelevance. But, for one relatively minor matter, vis a vis the size of the universe. That is the ability of the human mind to comprehend that vastness and there alone rests significance. When all along we are searching the vast expanse of the heavens we are doing so within our very minds. We are, in short, making use of our inner self. Thus, one wonders, might this explain why our ancient Ancestors studied the heavens religiously. Searching for life signs that impacted the Earth and themselves particularly. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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"Often, when a grandmaster is asked why he played a particular move, he will struggle to explian exactly how he came to a decision. It may appear as though he is trying to keep his secrets to himself, but more often it is simply because he does not himself understand the subconscious processes that led him to play a particular move."
- John Nunn. Grandmaster & four times Olympic gold medallist. It is my view, that John Nunn is not so much looking at mechanical explanations, but that which is based on human intuition. In much the same way, that intuition would probably explain why I believe there is extraterrestrial life and possibly many others. My opinion is that the SETI@Home project is trying to find that elusive, needle in a haystack, intelligent life signal. As it is doing so by harnessing the immense super combined CPU home computer power, then there is no better way or method in doing it. Setting millions to find that needle has got to reduce the odds of not finding it. As for benefits, dangers and signals to transmit. Surely, the biggest danger (and loss in benefits) is not knowing what is out there. Further, possibly there is another intelligent life form, out there, with a mirror SETI@Home project, just waiting to receive our Earthly transmissions. It might even be a race against time as to who makes contact first. |
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