|
| Personal background |
|---|
| I'm just a human. I do lots of trivial things with my soft human brain. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
|---|
Extraterrestrial life most definitely exsists. It's a rather large galaxy so to think life only exsists on one of the billions of planets orbiting the millions of stars in this vast wasteland of cosmic activity would be ignorant. however I do not think humans are going to discover these things anytime soon. To assume that all civilized life would be able to use radio waves for comminication is quite arrogant. There are a great many things we don't know.
There may be dangers, but if there are we can die knowing we were quite inferior to whatever destroyed us. Some of us might last long enough to be able to look back and laugh at the joke that creationism would seem to be at that point in time. Or it's quite possible that intelligent life would be benevolent, and hand us a cure for cancer and stupidity (yes, stupidity is an infectious disease. Ever notice how you accomplish less in meetings that have even 1 idiot in it?).
Leaving a beacon for others to find would probably not pay off much. I must reiterate that we know nothing of alternate comminications that intelligent worlds might be using. We can barely detect tachyons, so who knows what else is out there that could carry messages.
I run SETI to justify leaving my computer on 24/7, and because it's a neat idea. I don't think the project will be successful, but I also don't think that should be discouraging. If I could suggest anything, it would be to limit the search to stars that are less than 40 light-years away. Because wouldn't it be frustrating to get a message from a system that's over 100 light years away? I mean what would you do with it? Answer back so if they're listening they'll hear us in over 100 years so we can wait an additional 100 or more years to hear back? |
| Your feedback on this profile |
|---|
| Recommend this profile for User of the Day: |
I like this profile |
| Alert administrators to an offensive profile: |
I do not like this profile |
|
|
