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| Personal background |
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I am a 32 year old network engineer who lives in the Northeastern USA and works in the metroplex of a very large city.
I signed up with Seti back in 1999 in the second month of the start of the project, but didn't get passionate about it until the summer of 2001. Today I have over 50 computers processing whenever they're turned on, and I average about 33 work units per day. I do this because I believe in the SETI project as a means to further our own interests in science and in developing intelligent living for ourselves. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Indeed, the possibility for life other than human in our universe looks good, however the chance of us finding any of it is extremely bleak. It will be many thousands of years before we even have a shot at finding advanced life elsewhere. Despite the general optimism found in many science fiction novels and motion pictures, there are currently many constraints against humans ever finding life elsewhere:
1. We are too unique in time. The chance that other intelligent life has evolved at the same rate as humans is very remote. It is more likely that we would find remnants of long gone civilizations rather than living beings. Or stumble upon a planet that is millions of years premature of a flourishing civilization.
2. We are too slow and too far. Being nowhere close to propelling ourselves to light speeds, we don't have much of a chance of finding, let alone contacting, other glactically advanced species. Additionally, even after 55 years of sending space radio signals, we have still come up with nothing.
3. We are too advanced. It is possible that humans have evolved far beyond what they were meant to be. Despite millions of years of natural disasters, diseases, ice ages, hurtling comets, and warring self-destruction, humans are still standing, at least for the moment.
4. We are too primitive. If other beings are out there, they may not bother contacting humans simply because humans are too uninteresting, just as you may not bother contacting a spider, except to kill it.
5. We have too many cosmological limitations. For example, time travel is generally known to be an impossible endeavor. There has been no hard evidence of human or alien beings from the future visiting us, so it is unlikely that we will be time-travelers in the future.
We should not especially be eager to find other civilizations. If contact with another species is anything like the interaction of most of our own species or races on Earth, it could be quite deadly for humans. |
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