Spanish living in Scotland.
Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.
Creating new intelligence forms on Earth while helping to find an Extraterrestrial one.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think odds are overwhelming to the existence of life.
What is difficult is that intelligent lifeforms live close enough to contact us and at the same timespan than us.
I assume that civilizations technically advanced enough must have done so by being collaborative beings following a civilized code and somehow (with more or less success) have been able to survive selfdestruction [so they are more or less stable... something "like" humans]. This assumption gives hope to more benefits than dangers... although in our minds is the "devastating" colonization that humans did in, for example, America... in fact is a gamble... but I thing that the potential benefits (unthought forms of knowledge... These beings probably will have different mental schemes so their knowledge will be outrageous different and original for us [and viceversa]) outweights the dangers (anhiquilation by invaders) as the latter I think is less likely to happen than the former.
We should beacon and in as many different ways as possible... what we assume as logical can not be for other totally different intelligences so send as many different signals as possible.
I run Seti because helping science and knowledge should be a duty of any intelligent being in this world. There is enough brain power wasted in stupid quarrels and small stuff... I won't let my computer waste simmilarly by staying idle... let's find our companions of the stars!!!
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
