| Personal background |
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| Just a computer tech that wants to know if we're staring back at someone when we look up at the night sky. I've been interested in the concept of extraterrestrial life since I can remember, and am glad to be helping in the search, small as a single computer's contribution may be. My hobbies range from writing poetry to staring at a moniter to staring up at the sky, wondering when the fated day will come. If you want to contact me, my address is neo987@sbcglobal.net. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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With this universe being so large, I think it's impossible for life not to exist somewhere out there. With the low amount of humanity that actually believes or cares, though, I think we'll find extraterrestrial life the day they land on someone's doorstep, ring the doorbell, and say "Hello". An obvious benefit of this is new opertunity to learn about something of which we have very little knowledge, while dangers include mass distrust of this race and the chances of a hostile encounter.
If funding were available, a beacon should most definitely be constructed and maintained, though we've been doing a decent job with our own internal transmitions leaking into space. Searching for signals is one thing, but giving them something to search for themselves. Knowing what to send, though, is a problem. We don't know their language, if any, or their mental capacity. The easiest signal to identify would be a repeating, musical pattern (I know, old movie, but it works). |
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