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From: Seattle
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Occupation: Lawyer
Best TV show: Farscape |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Extra-terrestrial life almost certainly exists, probably as near as within our own solar system. Furthermore, assuming intelligent life is not a self-destructive trait in its own right, and assuming that intelligence potentiates the perpretuation of that specie, it could then be said that intelligent life is one possible, perhaps even likely, result of evolution. That is, of course, given sufficient time and environmental factors. Moreover, in addition to the millions or perhaps billions of life-sustainable or sustaining planet-like objects (moons, etc.) in our own galaxy and surrounding ones, those potentially life-sustaining places have also already had billions of years for intelligent life to evolve. Thus, if there is sentient life far enough along to be capable of detectable radio broadcasts then it's our duty to find them for no other reason than we would be "sisters in sentience," and need to learn from each other. Assuming communication is even possible and assuming learning from each other is also possible, then we would bolster our "fitness" as a species if we are able to learn better ways of sustaining our planet in ways hopefully not exclusive of also--but not limitlessly--perpetuating the human species.
2. If nuclear development is the natural progression of gaining a technological foothold capable of transmitting radio waves, then we may need to find another way of detecting intelligent life. Otherwise, any broadcasts may only last a few years before annihilating themselves. If overcoming the darkness of religion and emerging from nuclear and biological, etc. descimation is the norm--there are so many ways for intelligent life to annihilate itself, but also many to save itself--there may be no other project of more importance. If SETI can find an intelligent species that lived through all of our precarious satges, or skipped them altogether, our knowledge and survival could be bolstered immeasurably. Similarly, if by some chance we find a fledgling civilization and are somehow able to get a signal back to them before they destruct themselves, and assuming either government makes public the signal received, then we may be able to help ensure their survival--and ourselves. Parents often become more responsible when they know someone is looking up to them.
3. SETI is doing everything it should be, and Cal should be proud of having such a group as a credit to its namesake. |
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