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I am a robot builder from the uk.
My website is at http://orionrobots.co.uk. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am very interested in knowing when we find something out there. I dont know if we will- but I am sure we are not the only things sentient in the universe (although some may argue we barely qualify ourselves!).
The logic, and mathematics make it very likely - there are a virtually infinite number of stars, and if only 1% were like our sun, and only 1% of those had planets, and only 1% had planets with consditions right for life, and only 1% had life, and only 1% had sentient life - we are still left with a mathematically very big number.
I can only hope that in our lifetime, our technology allows us to go out there, and we do find life. I also hope both we, and they are mature enough, as races to cope with the fact - and dont launch great wars against each other.
But as the hitch-hikers guide say's, the thing about space is its big. Really Big!, and while the probability of something sentient being out there is pretty much at 1, the probability of actually finding it or making contact is a few billion to one. Even if they broadcast a few short messages to try and get our attention, if we werent looking, or it reached the wrong continent - we would completely miss it, if we replied they could completely miss that.
But we should try - and the more we try, the better our chances. As we start the very long, and wonderful journey of going out into the galaxy - we will increase those chances significantly. Even having another radar observatory giving time for Seti raises it, imagine having satellite observatories - what hubble data could do, what a moon observatory could do.
Heres a toast to hoping my contributed cpu hours can raise the stakes - just a little...
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