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Hi, there :)
I heard about the need and the possibilities of launching a project like(!) SETI some x years ago - around that age one looks STclassic at the (black/white)TV and then stands at the window all night, trying to send signals to some intelligent aliens and waiting for their friendly reply... I still wonder, if my parents ever had realized what happened to their 'suddenly disappeared' torch ;)
Life went different than I had prefered (and rather than I would have expected *g*)it in a way - and so I'm neither scientist or astronaut, nor a vulcanian stuff-member of Star Trek, which were the dreams of my childhood, but a stoneold (38) mum of two kids with a great affinity to science themes. Often enough, science braught up 'new' theories, which I imagined "empathically" but could not paint in numbers/cyphers on a blackboard, so I'm still struck on sciences, although I'm a dilletant. *g*
My 'fault' was to see "Contact", which braught me back on the theme and let me find SETI and SETI@home on the web. I think without that film I never had looked up the URL (& clicked it *g*), as before I only heard about SETI-related items from very nonscientific thinking UFO-believers (those ones, who turn "unidentified" into "alien" and "object" into "sorcer").. ;)
Well, that's me - just in here and talking too much, sorry :D
And please excuse my bad English, too - it's not my mother's tongue :)
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I'm deeply convinced about the existence of extraterrestrial life, although I don't think they would/must be humanoid in any way. "Next life" I liked to be an exobiologist, as I find the most of nowadays thoughts on aliens are still too struck on forms that could even have grown on earth. ;)
So I'm not convinced we really could detect/understand alien life/intelligence, even if we once will find it on our doorstep - but let's give it a try :) The benefit of finding 'them' would be that mankind may learn to think and behave cosmopolitical, in the basic as in the literally meaning ;)I expect no dangers from the aliens - if they were technically able and would plan a highway through our galaxy (I know, where my towel is *g*), they would do it without us finding them, anyway. The greatest danger of such a discovery would be the politicians and militaries of our own planet, I think - in their greed, they will probably use this discovery for their own purposes (gaining might) and will find enough dumb peple in panic that'll help them, I'm afraid.
So we might send deliberate signals, too. As written before, I'm sure that life-forms that could give us a visit, would be able to find us without our help. And those, who can't come to tea next wednesday, could not misuse our notices to them against us, anyway. *g*
I joined SETI@home, because even a skeptical mom should have a broadbanded mind, even on giving a chance to find intelligent signals between narrowband streams. ;)And as my pIII did not protest and as I liked the film "Contact" and the books of Carl Sagan, too: why not dedicate some of my PIII's working time to this project? :)And last, not least: I'm so curious - I do want to know, how it will be with knowing about having some neighborhood...and if my cpu could help finding it a part of a second earlier, I will let it run ad run... :-) UPDATE 02.02.03: old woman decided to bcome a student (Physics)- till autumn, I'll have to brush up a loooot of Maths.. *g* |
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