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I live in Czech Republic (Europe) and I study electrical engineering and theory of communication. I am 25 years old and I like nature and all the sciences, trying to perceive and describe the world around us. I have read some books about astronomy and cosmology and found the universe as a very exciting environment, full of many unknown and unusual phenomena. Even if we were the only intelligent race in the whole universe, it is still the best home we could imagine (and it surely goes far beyond our imagination in its features).
When I don't dream about distant galaxies, I work on software for a small company and a bit of my free time is filled by sport: swimming mostly. In summer I usually travel to mountains - I get nervous when I am not above 10000 feet for a longer period. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does extraterrestrial life exist? I think so. The visible universe contains so many stars, that there should be conditions suitable for life somewhere.
I don't know when will humans discover extraterrestrial life (maybe never!), but the moment lies in distant future, in my opinion. The search performed by SETI@home is just a small experiment, that will most likely discover nothing. A really serious project should scan the whole sky simultaneously on many frequencies (not just 1.4 GHz) with much better sensitivity, analyzing all the signals, using a computing power many orders of magnitude above that, offered by SETI@home now. And maybe the signal of alien intelligence is not broadcast by electromagnetic waves ... maybe we should watch the flow of neutrinos, gravitational waves, or something we have no clue about. And the last problem is - do the aliens transmit at all? What if the universe is full of civilizations, but we are the only one interested in astronomy?
The benefits of such a discovery is clear: new facts to study and therefore a better understanding of the universe. And dangers? I don't believe in evil aliens - the difference between two races could be such, that any war would be pointless for both sides. So the only danger could come from our own disability to use wisely the findings, coming from the discovery.
We should transmit a beacon for ET, I think. The signal should be very strong, omnidirectional and continuous for millennia. The contens should be such, that no natural source could produce anything similar.
I run SETI@home, because it is a way for me to get a bit closer to the distant universe. Each unit is a piece of something mysterious (it's just a stupid noise, I know, but still...). The picture in my profile comes from my most interesting unit. I liked the four strong pulses and wondered, where they came from... |
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