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| Personal background |
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it? What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
Yes it probably exists. No we wont communicate with it other than one-way transmissions. No real effects because gigantic space distances mean two-way communication will never be practical. Unless we have wormholes, or Contact spaceships.
2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
Yeah we should, but not get our hopes up about any reply for at least thousands of years. The message we should send should revolve firstly around helping the intelligence being able to decode our method of communication, eg. sound, text, images. Then make a huge progression of messages building up from simple logic to complex meaningful information so that the message can be logically worked out, considering they probably dont think much like we do, if at all. The primary objective would be to communicate where we exist in the galaxy and where our level of technology had reached. This would make future communications by the other intelligence far more focused on our current state.
3. Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
I run SETI@home because its an interesting use of my unused CPU cycles, with online groups and pretty graphs. I really dont give myself any more chance of finding anything remotely interesting than winning the lotto every week, but hey it cant hurt. The whole project however is extremely good for an example of a large-scale distributed computing system, which is interesting stuff. My suggestion is bigger and better graphics on the client. |
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