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i'm a twenty-five year old female living in the south of england. i work by day as a bookkeeper, but outside of work moderate two online forums, write novels and poetry, paint, dance and read. i love many different kinds of music, and am currently trying to learn to play the guitar.
i have schooling coming out of my ears - four languages, six A Levels, and two degrees, and an iq of 163 which puts me above einstein (he has better hair though O-O ) and below mozart (perhaps why i never managed to make friends with the piano). i'm very shy and quiet, but also quite strong-minded, independent and outspoken, which makes for an interesting mixture. i'm an atheist with a strong spiritual curiosity, and spend most of my free time (after above-mentioned interests) talking online to people all over the world, trying to come to terms with the nature of existence, and worrying about the environment.
i'd love to hear from anyone else running SETI, email to angeldoebathory@hotmail.com
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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i think it would be impossible for extraterrestrial life not to exist. the universe is infinite, a concept that not everyone can comprehend, but those of us that do must know that we're not alone in it.
whether or not we should transmit a beacon is a bit of a moot point, as our existence over the last hundred or so years, the emissions from our radios, tv's, mobile phones etc., are a constant beacon. hopefully, at some point, whoever's out there will see something of our existence, though by the time our transmissions reach them, we may no longer exist, and may not have done for millennia. this is what i would hope that SETI can accomplish in reverse, the discovery of transmissions, deliberate or not, from other civilisations. i'd like to think that if we found something like that, we'd be filled with wonder, not fear. to my mind, the discovery of other life forms would be a wondrous thing whatever a person's beliefs: those who follow science and logic could derive so much from whatever findings are collated, teach all of us about them, about ourselves, about the universe we live in; those with religion could find perhaps confirmation that 'God', whomever they perceive him to be, loves life, and endeavoured to fill the vast reaches of space with it.
contact isn't realistic, not if we think in terms of the timescale of our own lifetimes, but perhaps we need to think bigger than that, to work on the timescale of the universe...a few millennia here, and ice age there, several aeons to accomplish one goal, not the ready-made, freeze-dried, instant results we've come to expect and demand from our lives.
the reason that i choose to run this program from my pc, is that the chance, however remote, that i may help to find what would ultimately be the greatest discovery of all time, is an enticing goal, the sense of taking part in something far bigger than just me a heady experience. *whispers* plus it's kinda pretty to watch ;)
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