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Hi, I am Mike from London UK. I am an IT administrator working for a bank. My hobbies include astronomy and science in general.
I run seti on the following:
2 command line instances on a dual 2.4 GHz Xeon workstation at work
1 command line instance on my 2.6 GHz PC at home
1 command line instance on my 1.1 GHz laptop |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe there is life "out there" in some form or another. Due to the shear size of the Universe there must be something. Lets look at the facts. In our Milky Way galaxy there are 200,000,000,000 stars (200 billion). In the known universe it is esimated there are about 100 billion galaxies. Even if only 1 location in each galaxy has intelligent life, that still means 100 billion occurences, or roughly 16 civilizations for each person alive today on Earth. More likely, in the Milky Way alone there are 10 of thousands of civilizations and millions of planets with life.
As far as the SETI program goes, we will eventually come across a signal but most likely it will not be aimed at us. but rather a broadcast transmission (a bit like a TV signal). The discovery of the signal will settle many questions and raise many more but it will be good for humanity in that the question of whether we are alone or not will be answered.
I believe that most other civilizations are either far more advanced (millions of years) or far less advanced (prehistoric). The more advanced races will not contact us until we have demonstrated to them that we have matured as a civilization. By mature I mean:
1) long term environmental health and stability on our home world, Earth
2) long term global social/economic stability (no wars, minimal poverty etc)
3) extensive colonization of the solar system
4) beginning "real" starflight (faster than light)
We may, of course be the ones contacting other races first. If we discover a less advanced race and we send our ships to them, we'll be the aliens! But this is less probable in my view. |
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