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I'm a 27 year old freelance graphic designer from the UK, currently residing in the Canadian wilderness of northern British Columbia. Aside from a love of the X-Files and all things extraterrestrial, I play a mean blues guitar and love to drink a nice pint now and again. Not that I've managed to find a nice pint this side of the pond yet...
Disgruntled with the consumer world we live in and the current obsessions with fashion, celebrity lifestyles and all this consumerism, I come to SETI to find some meaning in what I believe is one of the few worth-while endeavours the human race is currently involved in...
And give my laptop something to do at night.
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SETI, along with space exploration and other scientific research, is an important area that has far more relevance than most of the things we humans waste our time with.
Considering the size of the universe, I think it is highly probable that not only other forms of life exist, but that many of them are far more advanced than we are. Reaching out and trying to find these civilisations could help us learn more about our place in the universe.
The effect that discovering another civilisation would have here on Earth would be huge. A discovery such as this could possibly unite the world in a common goal of trying to learn more, and possibly learn from, our alien friends. Problems would almost certainly arise from the religious sector, who will have to cope with their world-view being reshaped by the new discovery. Maybe the discovery could help ease the many social and racial problems we have on our planet and help us put ourselves in a universal perspective.
We should be making every effort possible to contact another civilisation, and a beacon should be set up to broadcast details of our planet, much the same as the information contained aboard the Voyager I spacecraft. The inclusion of music, speech and images from our planet would give other civilisations an idea of who we are, what we believe in and what our planet is like.
It's time to forget the money, forget the greed and forget our selfish obsession with consumerism and start looking for something beyond our mortal coil.
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