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Female, English adult with an MSc in Computing that she has never really put to good use. Hobbies include strategy-based and puzzle-based computer games, reading and needlework. I have a large collection of books, probably more non-fiction than fiction. Fiction: adventure, thrillers, crime, a little sci-fi and fantasy. Non-fiction: history, exploration pre-World War II, science, natural history especially pre-history and evolution.
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Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I'm convinced that extraterrestrial life exists - there's too much of this galaxy, never mind the rest of the universe, for Earth to be a one-off. It may not be intelligent life. It may not even be life as we know it. But it is out there. SETI may find it - eventually - or it may require inter-stellar travel to allow us to see it with our own eyes. If we do have to go out there and look for it, Star Trek's 'Prime Directive' would be a good thing for us to keep in mind. The benefits of finding life on other planets would depend on what stage that life is at. At the very least, it *might* make some people less convinced of mankind's unique place in the scheme of things. There could be dangers to us (health, hostility from other life-forms) and to the life-forms we discover. Mankind has been pretty blase about how we treat our own planet. I hope we've learnt to do better by the time we discover life on other planets. |
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