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Hi, the name's Dirk. I was born 1966 in a city on the Rhine near Cologne, Germany. My profession is software design.
Besides cooking, computing and astronomy, I love cruising Planet Earth on my motorbike.
Keep those units coming in fast and steady! |
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Chances are very slim ET life does not exist. It must be abundant in all conceivable and inconceivable forms and flavours (for the meat-eaters) of varying degrees of cognitive talent. Whether they (or "it") send in time for us to hear or listen while our thin layer of human-generated radio emissions passes over them is a different matter entirely.
I see no danger in contact with another species, but within ourselves. It is already implanted in our own human societies. Any intelligent ET life form advanced enough to reach our shores will very likely have developed far higher stability than the level we have attained so far.
I am not in favour of raising beacons. What do we ourselves expect to find - intergalactic light-towers attracting alien civilizations like flies to a light-bulb?
Earth itself with its growing sphere of man-generated radio transmission already serves as our beacon, if we like it or not. I would rather see a budget spent on better bandwidth coverage at higher resolution and frequency to raise our own chances of discovery.
Why I do participate? Strange question - for standing silently staring at the pitch-black sky in bitter-cold winter nights.
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