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| Personal background |
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| Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. Avid science fiction fan since I learned to read. Wargamer. Presently working as a bookkeeper/accounting technician. Writing is a hobby... currently unpublished. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm certain that extraterrestrial life exists... I'm NOT certain that it will be possible to communicate with extraterrestrial life, though. It would be a tremendous coincidence to find another intelligent species at a stage of development where communication would be possible which was also located near enough to us that communication would be practical. Nevertheless, we'll never know if we don't look.
Since I suspect that interstellar travel is never going to be practical (certainly not within my lifetime ... (* sigh *) ) I don't think that SETI is particularly dangerous... and the only real benefit would be to demonstrate that we are definitely not alone .... A beacon would do no harm, and could conceivably be used by another species to prove that THEY are not alone either. As for a signal, a repeating non-uniform pulse pattern which is definitely a non-natural sequence seems like a good idea. The first few Fibonacci numbers, for instance... or the first 20 digits of pi.
It's not necessarily the "finding" that's important. The search itself is a valuable enterprise, and while it would be nice to know definitively that there are other intelligences "out there", the ongoing search for knowledge and understanding of the universe is what's really important. |
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