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| Personal background |
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| My name is DJ Kinney. I'm 23 years old and live in Missoula, Montana. I was born in Ohio and moved west about three years ago to finish my first novel. It worked out reletively well, as things like that go, and now I'm finishing up my third. If I had my own space ship, I would park it around Neptune because of the cool blues and hypnotic cloud structures. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life most probably exists, but the odds of discovering it seem slim to none. Look at the proportion of species on Earth with the ability to communicate by electronic means in relation to those without. We are a truly rare breed. Perhaps life is rich in the cosmos, vast jungles and oceans teaming with hundreds of thousands of species. We still wouldn't be able to hear them.
Humans should absolutely transmit a beacon. The cost is very low compared to the benefit. I am fully aware of Carl Sagan's ideas on the content of the beacon message, and while the man was an absolute inspiration to me personally, I'm still not convinced that an alien species would really figure it out. Perhaps they are more "advanced" technologically, but that might just as well mean that there are a thousand more ways for them to overlook the obvious.
I run SETI@home because no matter how pessimistic (or even realistic) I seem about discovering other forms of life with which we might communicate, I still have hope that we will hear them. If we do, it would be nothing less that the most profound discovery in the history of histories, it would be like seeing the face of god. I think I can devote a few spare processor hours to such an endeavor. Maybe if we find them, they'll give me that space ship I've been wanting. I've heard Neptune is quite beautiful this time of year. |
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