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Hello!
I am a 38 year old freelance technical designer and CAD/CAS/CAE specialist.
As a one of many children of the space age (those of us who watched the first moon landing on television in our pajamas while eating patatoe chips and anxiously waiting for Star Trek to come on) it goes without saying that I have no doubts about the existance of intelligant life beyond this "rock". Only an egoist could believe (or prefer to believe) that we humans are the only "relatively" advanced life forms in this milky mess of a galaxy.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does exraterrestrial life exist? How could it not exist when even here on earth life forms are constantly being discovered in places where it was thought impossible ... i.e. on the borders of active vulcanoes and in arctic "wastelands". And there are new planets and planetoids being discovered with ever more rapidity, thanks to the Hubble project and Radio Telescope technological advancements. There are possible "M" class bodies other than the Earth in our own solar system alone, immagine how many others in other solar systems there must be!
Should we try to send communications towards space you ask? We humans have achieved what we have so far, culturaly and scientificaly, due to primarily two of our various capacities ... our ability to manage tools (an over-simplified statement) and our ability to communicate. Trying to send communications by signals or physicaly sending objects in space is the natural continuation of what we have always done. One of the reasons that we are what (and where) we are.
I think SETI has a very interesting idea with SET@home that other institutes with much data to be process should consider. We, the home computer enthusiasts, can take pleasure in being a part of a project like SETI. And SETI can use our hardware resources to expand its own data processing potential.
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