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I am a graphic designer however I would be just as happy as a SETI researcher, marine biologist, essayist/poet or illustrator/painter.
I am very pleased to have a chance to be involved in this great search. If I understand the astronomy correctly it seems to me that there may be a greater chance of success once seti@home begins to process data from Parkes NSW or, we may have to wait for the Allen Telescope Array.
I'm running the software on a Mac G4 / 450. |
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I think we need to be looking out toward Carina in the Carina Arm and toward Cygnus in the Saggitarius Arm. Perhaps we should be concentrating on clusters and the Clouds of Magellan but I'm not sure if these stars are the right ages and types.
I suspect that once the first ET signal is received other discoveries will follow relatively quickly as has been the case with extrasolar planets.
First we would want to know if they're friendly. Second we want to know what they look like. Did Lucas and Spielberg get it right? Ridley Scott and HR Giger?
What do they think about? What do they know about the creation of the universe that we don't and may never discover?
Do they even have art? How would they respond to ours? My fantasy is that they would at least find it charmingly naive. What do they think is the purpose of their existence? What's the view like from their section of the galaxy?
Do I think we should transmit? Absolutely. They may be mean but so are many of us. It would be a shame if we anihilate ourselves without there being any record of our existence - of our successes and failures, of our creations - our art, literature, music. I think we should transmit everything we have - everything we know about the natural world, the sciences, the cosmos, human history, art, literature, music, the human genome, language. I think individuals should be able to participate - uploading personal websites or messages. Let's pick a target and go for it. Become immortal in a way. I think that's what we're supposed to do. Maybe the Clouds of Magellan would be a good target. |
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