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| Personal background |
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| I'm a 21 year old student currently living in the St. Louis area. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think extraterrestrial life does exist, and hope we make contact with it in the not too distant future. I think that anyone who says otherwise has an ego problem thinking that they are so special in such a vast universe. I think if we have any hope of finding life out there it's with a program like SETI, that said, I want to be a part of it.
If and when we discover ETs I don't think we have to worry about scarry monsters or other sci-fi depictions of aliens, they are probably just as interestred in finding us as we are in them. They are probably sceintists to even get to the point of communication with us. In terms of dangers or benifits, who knows, they'd be several light years away so there would be nothing but communication for a long time to come.
The problems that come to mind about our goal are:
1. Even though there might be et life, we don't know if nearby civilizations are capable of contact, if they care to make contact, if they are listening, or sending out a signal.
2. If everyone is listening for signals and no one transmits, what good is the program? I think that we need to transmit a signal of our own, but I'll get to that further down.
3. How are we going to communicate? We'd have to deal with signal travel time, language differences, technological differences, and more.
I think the best concept that comes to mind is one that many sci-fi shows use, take six refrence points in sky, points that can be identifed from the rest, like pulsars, and take them in pairs of two to so that they form three "lines" that intersect around Earth or the Solar System to be more accurate. The signal would have to include a few things, the frequency of the pulsars, enough information to tell them what a light year means to us (because while the speed of light is constant, our measurement system is relative), a basic mathematical message to show intelligence and act as a key to the rest of the information. |
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