| Personal background |
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| I live and wok in London, UK. I grew up in Liverpool and was born in Wegburg Germany. I started running SETI on my first IBM PC (I was a big Amiga fan before & still miss them) in May 1999. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think it’s next to impossible that we are the only life forms in the universe. Finding them is another matter… Unfortunately I think that the Mars Beagle expedition has a higher chance of discovering signs of extraterrestrial life than SETI.
Initially I was optimistic that evidence of other civilisations close to us would be discovered very rapidly by SETI once results started coming in.
I’ve thought about why we haven’t and concluded that ‘time’ is the answer. After all, if another civilisation were looking at the Earth constantly from its birth, with the same receivers as we are using now then over the last 4.5 billion years they would only been able to detect us for 100 years at a maximum distance of 100 light years from away from us. Not very good odds! The Egyptians, The Romans the British industrial revolution all invisible! Secondly, how will our civilisation be in another 100 years, will we still use radio waves as a form of communication? Will Star Trek ‘subspace communication’ become a reality? Will Einstein’s physics be viewed the same way we regard Galilean physics today?
So in a nutshell we are looking for other civilisations with the same technology as ourselves through a mind bogglingly vast area of Space & Time – I hope SETI wins the lottery!
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