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Hi! Paul from Ipswich Qld Australia here.
I am a 46 year old electronics engineer who believes that to think we are the only intelligent life in the whole of a virtually infinite universe:
[1] is outrageous arrogance
[2] is a sad lookout for God if it is the case
[3] makes for boring exploration in the millenia ahead |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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If life can occur spontaneously on one world in a virtually infinite universe, then it should occur again and again.
However, due to the incredible distances, anything we hear will be from civilisations that could be long dead.
I think it far more likely that the only contact that we will have will be from space faring civilisations that have heard our original broadcasts starting about a century ago - this should limit the sphere in which possible contactors could be found.
Perhaps they have chosen not to contact us (or many of us) as it may effect our natural evolution. A technologically superior race has often caused havoc with technologically inferior ones - look at the Australian aborigines and American indians and what white settlers did there. The only danger I perceive is if we were given too much technology too soon. It would be like a child with a box of matches.
I feel we do not need to transmit a beacon as we have been doing so inadvertantly for over a century. Perhaps while we transmit the likes of Days of our Lives, no self respecting alien would want anything to do with us! What we send now is truly a case of "too much information". Our wars in dolby stereo are a really bad advertisement.
Why do I run this? I would dearly like to discover if other intelligent life exists that has reached some technological level. The spread computing idea is a masterstroke and should also be used for other world wide projects.
I would only make one suggestion. Due to the increasing power of home computers, perhaps it could be possible for the software to analyse the system it is installed in and determine if it can run more than one instance of itself? Some parallel computing on the same PC can't go astray.
To all - keep up the good work. I only hope we don't run into bastards like us. |
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