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| Personal background |
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| Had a Seti Classic account... about 4 or 5 MS reinstalls ago.. couldn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t remember the registration email account.... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Two thoughts here: Our creator - God, Allah, the Supreme Being etc. (select your deity/term) is
1) Omniscient and Omnipotent - in this case we are alone, why should there be others? Seti@home still serves a purpose, in this scenario, the Universe is for us and we here in the Seti@home project (amongst some other groups) regardless of our belief(s) provide the impetus behind reaching out and achieving our birthright.
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2) Non-Omniscient and/or Non-Omnipotent and/or Non-Existent. Given a creator existence, this scenario calls for back-up creations in case of non-viability of others. Given non-existence, this calls for randomness in the possibilty of life and thus the possibility of life elsewhere. Contact could be benificial. But given that not all humans are altruisitic or trusting - usually especially those not involved in Set@home and not to anthropomorphize any contacts, but there is still the possibility that they are much like us in that regard (i.e. does anyone really believe that a upon discovery announcement, that the world defense ministries won\\\\\\'t collectively start planning working together for planetary defense? And what are the odds that they they won\\\\\\'t try to build offensive capabilities?)
I had an astronomy professor dead-set against the possiblilty of us contacting life \\"out there\\" that we could \\"contact back\\" and that they would never be able to visit us even if they heard us- in my mind his thoughts held a few flaws - 1) What if they had there own Seti program? Wasn\\'t it possible that they\\'d try something? 2) What if Einstein was as accurate as Newton (i.e. the speed of light is the fastest under Einsteinian physics but is there another level of laws that may bypass this (the unified theory has NOT been found!)? Granted in this second case we\\'d be better served by transmitting RF signals than trying to receive them especially since any civ capable of FTL transit is also probably capable of FTL comm over distance but given that Newton is easier to use over Einstein for smaller events, so may non-FTL comm over \\"short\\" distances. I will grant my professor with one thing however... any civ capabile of FTL transit and comm that we conatact real time with RF better be altruistic or KYBG. |
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