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| Hello everyone. My name is Brad, I am currently an undergraduate student majoring in physics. I have had an inclination towards astronomy since elementary school, probably since I looked up and realized those were not just white dots. I never used to consider going into astronomy as a profession part of my future, but this is one of those subjects, to me atleast, that the more I learn about it the more I want to be able to completely understand it. I am one of those people who refuses to get a job they do not enjoy, and now I am starting to really consider going into astronomy through my physics major. Actually, if anyone does read this and have any suggestions they would like to give me, be it some sort of advice or even just a good astronomy book to read I would appreciate it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I would be very surprised if it turned out that life does not exist anywhere else in the universe. Life is just too amazing to be isolated on this one planet. I really do not know how we will discover life, it could be through this program, through probes NASA sends out, or what would be really cool is if an alien group sent a rover type probe here to explore our world. Finding life on another world should only show people how awesome life is, that it was able to develop in completely seperate conditions. If we were to transmit a "beacon" I would think it should contain data for an image of what an "average" person looks like, our genetic make-up, and maybe a quick run down on the types of things we need to survive (water, oxygen, various foods) so that were anyone to "hear" the signal they would have an idea of what it is like here. I run SETI@home because discovering life is too important to put off even the little bit of time it would take for everyone else running this program to compensate for me not running it. The only thing I could compare the level of discovery that would mean is to finding a grand unified theory for physics. |
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