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| I am 45 years old. I retired from the U.S. Air Force after 20 years. I am a computer programmer/analyst. In the Air Force I was a radio operator but I find that my experience there doesn't help prepare me for the terminology needed for the SETI@Home experience. I am very interested in anything to do with science or science fiction. Hobbies are learning everything, working on my 10 acres of land, genealogy, computers and philosophy. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think it would be odd for us to think that we could possibly be the only intelligent beings in the universe. That said, other intelligent beings may exist in a state that we might not even take as being "alive" or as unrecognizable as intelligent beings (intelligent plants). I don't think we will discover the existence of ETs except by mistake or as a result of them wishing to do so. I don't have an opinion as to whether the government knows about the existence of ETs or not. I do think it is possible that if they did know that they might decide it is in our best interest to not tell us due to possible consequences (suicides, cults, riots, depression from the religious who thought they were created in God's image, etc...). As we have seen among human beings, in any group you have good and bad elements. Some wish to conquer and some wish to be left alone. Sending a beacon to other ETs could be dangerous as we can't predict whose attention we will get. We could broadcast our good intentions and attract an ET race that finds us "tasty"....
I run SETI@home because I find it is an extremely easy way for society to work together to further our understanding of the universe and our part in it. I would think a space traveling race of ETs would use light (laser) as their carrier signal since it is the fastest transmission speed that we know of so far. I have imagined what other projects could see as much benefit from this distributed type of computing and can't come up with many ideas... |
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