Profile: Exoce†

Personal background
Frying 512MB DDR cured me of FSB overclocking. Multipliers are our friends. The FSB is our enemy.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
We would be naive to think that no other intellegent life exists outside the Earth considering our limited knowledge about the universe. I believe that it is important for us to find out for certain if other intellengent life exists for a number of reasons.

First for the possible societal implications, people might actually try to see the grander picture beyond their own lives.

Secondly for the surge of interest in the sciences that would follow, certainly the politicans might free up some cash for the space program. Serious competion is the only thing that has ever done that, I think ET would be suitable competion to nudge open the government pocketbook.

Lastly, we don't want them to find us first. There is no guarantee that they'll be peaceful.

If they are however, it stands to reason that they might be just happy enough where they are not to come looking for our problems. Would you travel a hundred million miles to Earth if it were likely that upon arival you would be subjected to one, several or all of the following?
Capture by rightly paranoid government forces, unwilling experimentation, confidentiality agreements ("sure we'll take you to our leader, but only if you promise never to tell anything about his place to the folks back home."), pop music, celebrity talkshows, tupperware, avon calling, multi-level marketing (pyramid) scemes. Long and drawn out supreme court battles to reclaim the bodies of your buddies who crashed in the fifties. Or purhaps worst of all: Having to be nice to the primitive screw-heads.
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