Profile: DevWar

Personal background
I’m a 23 year old Geordie (someone from Newcastle in the UK) who moved to that great outback dunny affectionately known as Australia. My field of interests include astronomy, geology and anything else that happens to strike me as been high-tech and fascinating, English though has never been my strong point, as I’m sure you’ll see by reading this at some stage.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
In my opinion S@H is ahead of its time, perhaps even too far. It strikes me that at the moment the equipment we are using in the search for ET is not quite sensitive enough. It is my belief however that the infrastructure required to be able detect ET is coming along in leaps and bounds thanks entirely to S@H and us the users. Its through this line of thought that while I don’t believe we will be finding any signals just yet, once a larger telescope is completed and made available for this undertaking, I then believe it will only be a matter of time. So I honestly believe a signal will be detected within 20 years.

The idea of transmitting a signal into the wilderness of space, quite frankly, SCARES ME! I believe it was back in the '70s that a signal was sent out to a star cluster 40,000 light years away (or it may have been 20,000LY distance with a 40,000year response time to the signal if it was received... its late and im tired ;)) That signal could potentially act as a beacon letting a hostile life form aware of our existence. Now, Ill come back to this soon by posing YOU a question at the end of this.

I run Seti@Home because, while I don’t expect us to find the proverbial needle in a haystack, id like to think that just maybe S@H will be able to answer that all important question a little faster for me... I hate not knowing these things...

To finish... lets look back into our own history here for a second... put yourself in the shoes of the Incas once the far superior Spanish became aware of the commodities they possessed. Would it be wise to risk this happening to us?

Id rather not risk this 'cat' because of our natural curiosity!

Dev.
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