1) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Another Bittersweet Milestone (Message 2105340) Posted 18 Aug 2022 by Shasari Post: I know it's a little late to be saying this, but I do hope those servers found a home that was not in some e-recycling scrap pile awaiting to be dismantled, melted down etc. Personally, I would very much like to see this research continue forward. I imagine that if (and I only say if due to the lack of empirical evidence) an advanced civilization exists out there in the vastness, the countless numbers of galaxies, suns, stars and planets, they would look up toward the stars in their sky with the same level of wonder that we do, that drove this science in the first place, to answer that one age-old question. Are we alone in the universe? Personally, given all the possibilities for life to have evolved on another planet orbiting it's sun, maybe in the sweet spot that we have identified as being able to harbor life forms as we known them on our fragile Spaceship Earth, I think it is a case of massive hubris for us to think that we alone are the only life forms that ever took shape on a planet orbiting it's sun. Maybe one day in our distant, or not so distant future, we will have answers to these questions. Admittedly this lies in the belief that another civilization would have developed communications technologies in the same ways as we have, using radio frequency energy for the transmission of voice, image and data. Who knows, in the end we may be "barking up the wrong tree" as their technology may be more, or less advanced, or simply have taken a different path. Perhaps they never developed technologies the same was as we have, and their focus is mor agrarian. I'd like to think that at the same time I peer up at the night sky, someone somewhere is doing the same thing with the same sense of wonder and awe at the beauty and vastness that is the universe, and is wondering if someone somewhere is looking up at their sky, or if they are alone...

 
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