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My name is VinÃcius, I'm a Brazilian teenager student who's very interested in the SETI@HOME idea. I'm 17 years old, and a Stephen Hawking compulsive reader.
I usually look at the sky at night, and meditate about what we'll be doing in the next 100 years or whatsoever. WÃll we still be here?
And... no, I am not a X-Files fan :)
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A very interesting fact, the human's curiosity about life outside Earth. Now I ask myself: when (and if) whe find them, what we're going to do?
Alright, let's assume that there IS another civilization, and they have pacific behavior. How can we communicate with them? With numbers? ASCII Code? AIM? :o)
That's my only thought: if we find them... we'll say, 'huh, cool... now what?!' How can we interact with them? At least for now, there's no way to do it. But now, let's assume other chance: they are not pacific. They want to dominate the galaxy (Remeber the force, Luke!) and make us their slaves. What does we have to do? I really can't even think about it, because there's no way to defend ourselves. And that disturbs me.
Should humans transmit a beacon for others possible races to find? I don't think so.
If they are a more advanced civilization than ours, they will be able to find us without any beacon. If they are just like us, they will want to annihilate us, and so will we. And, finally, if WE are more advanced than THEY, than there is no use for a contact. It will be just one more parasite upon us.
But... are they really just one? Can't we think about TONS of civilizations, more or less advanced in their society, tecnology, etc?
Now you'll ask me: Why do you run SETI@home if you don't wanna make contact? That's it: I think that we can have better chances to survive peacefully for a long time in the Earth if we KNOW that THERE ARE intelligent entities surrounding us. Can't we? What do I think about the project: Since SETI does not have enough money to provide such powerful computers to read the data taken by the observatory, SETI@home was the smartest idea. Using all idle computers around the world should be the point. I think that more ads around the web would help in that, because many people who would help if they knew about the project are just leaving their computers with their 'pretty Windows screen-savers" turned on. That's what I think.
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