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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am not sure if extraterrestrial life exists, but considering the scientific facts it is hard to believe that it doesn't. Simply put, we won't be sure until we find it. But I am quite sure that it won't be like anything that most of us expect. Maybe it is so different from what we know now, that at first we won't even recognise it as life. Maybe their way of communication is as strange to us as spoken language is to animals that don't have sense of sound.
Finding extraterrestrial life (if we ever do) might happen somewhere in the next 10 to 20 years, if it turns out that primitive bacterial life is present on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa. Finding INTELLIGENT e.t. life (again, if we ever do) probably won't happen within the next hundreds of years, I think. Allthough I participate in the SETI@home project, I think that there is not much chance of finding e.t. life this way. My impression is that SETI@home isn't advanced enough yet. If we find e.t. life through SETI@home, I think it will be sheer luck. Read the SETI@home FAQ's answer on "If SETI were on a planet say 10-50 light years from here and running this project there, would it be able to detect earth's signal (assuming it was looking in our direction)?", and you will see what I mean (
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html#q4.1).
Still, I think running SETI@home is worthwile. I also participate in our State Lottery every month, you just never know when you hit the jackpot... |
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