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I'm a 41 year old A certified, working computer technician. I'm an avid believer... in nothing! I'm a hard-core Atheist, who loves science, chess, sociology, music and my wife (she's at the head of the list).. and I believe the world has only improved through the PROPER use of science. Certainly, Seti is such a proper use!
I don't belive in "aliens or UFO's". No way! But I DO believe in the law of "Scientific Mediocrity". If a law of chemistry or physics works in this corner of the Universe, then certainly, it works on the other side of the Universe as well! If Oxygen and Hydrogen eventually end up as water here, the same thing's got to happen in other star systems, just the way it happened here, as well. And if life has sprung up here, It is the hope of a lifetime, that it will spring up, and HAS sprung up within other, similarly configured star systems as well.
So that is my hope, and my dream, that one day, we'll start hearing artificially produced radio waves. Whether they're 10 Lyrs out (therefore 10 years old) or 10,000, it's STILL as exciting as heck and I'm honored that my PC can be used in "the search". |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think that life HAS to exist elsewhere. The Law of Mediocrity is real (but my spelling my be wrong). The dangers are great and so are the potential benefits. The danger might be, that we might run into life so alien that once that information reaches us, it'll create wide-spread panic on the planet. Or, if the "aliens" transmit data to us, as seen in the Sci-Fi movie Contact, the data will change the face of the Earth in unforseen ways.
The benefits however, might really outweigh ANY dangers! For the planet Earth to finally know we're not alone, might not turn the entire planet into a globe of Atheists, but a more unified Globe, unified in both stronger belief in Life in a positive way, and stronger belief, for some, in a higher power that is at work throughout the physical Universe. Personally, I'm an Ahtheist. But hearing about life, proof-positive of life existing on other worlds! Wow! That might change me in unknown and certainly positive ways as well! Maybe even more of an Atheist (which I'm happy with) or maybe I'll even look into Judaism to see if the answers were there all along in the Torah (I really doubt it though).
I think that humans absolutely SHOULD transmit. We should transmit knowledge about our existence but NOT our location, such as what was sent out on the first Extra-solar probe. But creating a coordinate diagram of our system was a MISTAKE! We should give instructions as to what "slice" of space aliens should transmit their answer to(or question(s), but nothing exact. And we should be honest about ourselves, about our carnivorous nature, our loving nature, our evil, as well as good nature, and the insanities, and horror, of our "other natures" as well. Who knows? Maybe an advanced civilization would understand and have compassion on our poor planet :)
I run Seti, because it gives me a sense of belonging to part of the most important project the Earth has known. The project is AWESOME. and I'm so pleased, and have much gratitude, towards all the scientists and individuals. |
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