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I'm 26, nearly 27, years of age. I reside within the US and work as a technical support agent/web developer for a wireless internet service provider.
I am a musician, skateboarder, and digital media designer with an affinity for aviation and performance driving. Most everything else is simply a phase.
My ultimate goal is to retire as soon as possible so that I can live life the way it I feel it should be lived... no responsibilities beyond survival, and exploring all things that come my way.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1a) Everything is possible, it's the probability that matters. I believe there is an unquestionable possibility for the existence of extraterrestrial life. The probability of it, I feel, is so high that it defies any means of measurement, given the vastness and complexity of this medium we call the "universe".
1b) Will humanity discover these neighbors? Will these neighbors discover us? Or, has it already taken place? All are questions that can, for now, only be answered through speculation. After all, we collectively won't know or accept it as truth until they land in our own front yard. As for when species X and us meet, I don't expect it to be anytime soon. If we find them first, we've got a long, long wait ahead of us as man has yet to venture farther than our own moon. If they find us first, and if they do any research before they initiate contact, they would surely deem our species as a whole to be inadequately prepared for such an occurrence. They would surely judge us by our worst specimens, forget about those of us who are capable of honest, unbiased, and mature representation. If they do their homework, they may check back in a few thousand years.
1c) The benefits and dangers of such an encounter depend greatly upon the similarities and differences between our intelligence and behaviour and theirs, and as such are too numerous to elaborate upon here. I'm sure both sides would be equally apprehensive and so it would be quite some time before we would see any fruitful relations. If they, like us, have any form of survival or territorial instinct, then the level of danger is likely to be quite high.
2a) By all means, we should honk our horn! Crank our stereo, yell from the highest mountain, anything to get their attention (within reason, some things we are capable of would not make a very good first impression). If it works and leads us to our doom, then at least it will be the most profound example of the lesson, "Be careful what you wish for".
2b) I think a transmission should include human |
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