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| Personal background |
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| 18 and happy here in Wollongong, Australia. I've been a little out of action as of late, but am right back into it - yay for me. I still stand by my thoughts of SETI as detailed below, and I wrote that nearly 3 years ago. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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ET life has to exist out there. How can we be so arrogant and self-minded as to believe that we are the only living things in all of the universe? It's not logical to believe that in the billions of square kilometres, there is one small blue-green dot that supports life. As Jodie Foster says in the end of the excellent movie 'Contact', if there isn't life out there, then there's a hell of a lot of wasted real-estate.
ET will be as dangerous to us as any country is dangerous to another. Annoy them, and they'll be angry, obviously. Don't try to take what's their's, and they won't try to take what we have. What's stopping us from living together (and I'm not just talking about humans and the soon-to-be-discovered ET) in peace is a just a few greedy fools who want more and more. So of course there is the threat of an attack from aliens, but why would they waste their time attacking us if we haven't provoked them?
Earth should be sending out some kind of transmission that could be used as an interstellar language, eg mathematics, as done in 'Contact', also. Of course, this could be impossible for just one supercomputer, so why not release another version of seti@home that allows the millions and millions of interconnected computers to amplify the signal?
My views on seti@home is such that I believe this tiny program is the best thing to happen to the science of ET study. How many years has this been running for? 4 years? 5? Compare that to the amount of research its done - over a million years worth. Is it worthwhile? More so than most other projects that governments are laying down upon their people. |
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