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| Personal background |
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| I'm from the North of England, land of flat caps and whippits, though I haven't a flat cap or whippit. IT Specialist for a national company. I run seti on any machine I can get away with. In the picture I'm the one on the right... just wanted to make that clear :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| 1. If ET doesn't exist then I'll be a bit peeved that I've wasted all these cpu cycles! Seriously though I think its more likely that we will be discovered by being visited/contacted by ET. The signals we are checking are years old, maybe thousands of years old, so even if we detect a signal the race may have long gone, the whole source solar system may have collapsed etc thousands of years ago. Thats why I believe we would have to be visited by some race that has mastered travel that doesn't relate to time, perhaps like in event horizon. The science is beyond me, or any of us, YET. But one day we will understand. Look how far we've come in the last few hundred years. We all know the benefits/dangers of such a discover, on the positive side we might find friends that do nothing but help us, on the negative we find the equivalent of kligons or even the borg and then bye bye earth. Unknown virus may wipe out one or both sides, possibly even maliciously. Most likely it will be somewhere inbetween, probably with both sides nervous/cautious/guarded but hopefull. 2. As for the beacon, I think the amount of signals which leave earth everyday already count as a huge beacon. I'm a glass half full kinda person so I hope we'll meet the 'creators' who seeded this planet and we'll be welcomed like grown up successfull children. :) |
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