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Current Location: Tampa Bay, Florida
Current Age: 34
Occupation: Proactive Services Engineer for a BPI Solutions provider.
I have been using all types of Computers since I was 18 years old and I do mean the ENTIRE gamut (with exception to the really BIG iron, e.g. HP-UX). I love to tinker with anything not broken (until i get my grimy hands on it sometimes!) and so have a LOT of hardware to run Distributed Clients on and decided that SETI was the best way to use that idle time. I have seen what some of you are running this on [quantity] and I am in AWE. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do believe that there is life 'out there' but it is a little naive to think that they are at the same basic technological level as us (or just below) and/or intelligent. Life does one thing, survives. It does not need to be intelligent to survive. Look at one-celled organisms and that should be proof enough that life is robust and hardy.
If we find other life out in the universe that will cause paradigm shifts in belief systems and in societal norms very rapidly. There won't be a single person that will be the same by that discovery but will it be for better or worse I cannot foresee. It is far easier to believe that if we find something that it will be 'friendly' due to it's 'enlightened' state but I do not trust that thought. Just like on our planet, the weak are ALWAYS exploited by the strong even in ways that seem to be kind and benevolent.
Advertising that we are out in the universe is a neat idea and a nice way to at least make a mark on that great big void above even if we do not find anything else out there. Pioneer 10 was fine for getting our message of life out in the void.
As for my view on the Seti project, I have a dual-faceted take on it. On the one hand I feel that the project seems a little too narrow in scope to find radio-waves/signs of intelligent life in all of that cosmic background noise HOWEVER it is very laudable that someone had the foresight to decide to do SOMETHING and SETI is the sum of those choices. From a Scientific standpoint the least we can do is to try SOMETHING and with a standard set of rules so that it can be quantified and retested and verified etc. |
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