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| Personal background |
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Location: NYC, USA
Occupation: Hospital Security Officer
Hobbies: PCs, Access and VBA programming, SciFi (Star Trek specifically!)
Personal Desktop: Home-built
AMD Phenom II x4 945 @ 3.1 GHz
4 GB DDR3-1600 RAM
HDs: 1 80 GB SSD, 1 SATA 1 TB, 1 SATA 640 GB, 1 SATA 400 GB, 1 400 GB EHD
HP 20x DL DVD burner
PNY GTX465 w/ 1 GB
PC Power and Cooling 750w PSU
Antec SX1030 case |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1.
(a) I believe there have to be other beings out there, somewhere in interstellar space. Like it was said in "Contact", if there weren't, it'd be an awful waste of space!
(b) I don't think humanity will discover alien life for at least another 50 years. By then, with any luck, our world will have stopped all the internecine squabbling and will be able to face the galaxy together.
(c) Possible benefits are beyond my meager ability to quantify. Possible hazards are; Humans hurting or killing aliens out of fear and losing more than the possibility of new technology, radical cultural shifts as a result of first contact, imperialistic aliens who would do to Terrans as Europeans did to Native Americans.
2.
(a) Absolutely send a beacon. We have to know if there are others out there. There is too much to see and learn not to try to find out.
(b) Send out some information on our species, such as language, appearance, and so on. If they come, they have to be able to communicate with us. Leave out some information, so that they don't come and slaughter us like sheep if they are hostile.
3.
(a) I run SETI@Home to do my part to look for alien life. If we are ever going to evolve as a species to the next level, I think we need to meet other life forms who know how to do this without self-destructing.
(b) I think that radio telescope data should be collected from other sources besides Arecibo. There is just too much sky being missed because Arecibo cannot be aimed. We could be missing an FTL-capable civilization a few parsecs away because nobody looked that way! |
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