| Personal background |
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| I'm a student at Eastern Michigan University, studying history. I've got a huge interest in computing, music, and, well, history. I was born in '81, so at the time of writing this I'm 21. I geuss thats it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Does life exist? I think it would be odd that in a universe people keep insisting is at the very least bigger than a bread box, that only one planet developed life that communicated via transmitting 'stuff.' I think that progams like SETI give us our only real chance at detecting other civilizations, otherwise we have to wait to be discovered. I don't think that we should assume that all civilizations out there are peaceful, discovery, and contact, could lead to our lives turning into a bad scifi flick. There is of course the alternate possibility that we may get help in any number of social and scientific fields, or that no further contact would be made.
Should humans transmit a beacon? I don't think we should. We have no idea what is out there, untill we can determine the nature of our surroundings, I think that we should remain observers. If it is determined that there is nothing that can be seen as aggressive or threatening locally, then we should consider it. A beacon would certainly increase our chances of contacting some extra-solar civilization.
Why run SETI? If some day, all of those dishes out there pick something up, I probably will not be the one who discovers it, but I will help in narrowing down the results. |
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