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| Personal background |
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I am 18 years old, and originally from Michigan, but I now live in Oregon. I enjoy computer games, reading, and playing my trombone.
Interestingly, I'm involved with a gaming clan/community themed around aliens. We call ourselves the Alien Armada. Come visit us at www.alienarmada.com ;)
Though my SETI and alien life opinions seem really serious and pessimistic, that's not really representative of me as a person. Normally I'm very upbeat and wacky. I just don't hold that high of an opinion of the intelligence and integrity of a great deal of people I've met in my High School (and the masses of America). :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think life exists in other planets. If not in this galaxy then perhaps others. There's simply too much space available and too much time that has passed that life could not have evolved somewhere else in the universe like it has here.
I think it's far more likely that alien life will discover us, rather than us finding them. There is a good chance that they're more technologically advanced than our society, assuming their planet was not hit by a giant asteroid and plunged into an ice age, significantly stunting life's growth. ;p
I'd hesitate to lump any alien species into the "hostile" or "friendly" categories, because that is the whole issue of being alien. Something evolved on a completely different planet, in a completely different environment, with completely different circumstances, is likely to be completely different from humankind. Their interactions with others of their kind are probably of a completely different nature than ours. Maybe they don't communicate orally... maybe they have telepathic abilities, or maybe they communicate solely by gestures like our sign language. If that's true they'll probably have no idea what to make of us, just as we to them. (Though I highly suspect there would be a great deal of panic and disorder on our part if and when any intelligent alien species were discovered...) I have kind of a pessimistic view of humankind at the moment, so I find it quite likely that rather than try to figure out how their species thinks or attempting to communicate, or understand reasons behind their actions, we'd try to kill them first. We kill members of our own species when they're too different from us, so why would we treat any other species differently?
I hope I'm wrong. |
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