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Living in Mallerstang, a remote area of Cumbria, in the north-west of England. Now retired. Previously lived in London and was a Science teacher in secondary (11-18) schools. Enjoy hearing from other BOINC participants to share views on SETI - you are welcome to contact me on thrang@mallerstang.com
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I assume that at least primitive forms of life may be quite common throughout the universe (and maybe some forms of life far more alien than the carbon-based forms of Earth). I still hope that I might live to see a message from "ET", even if not a two-way contact. But I am gradually coming to wonder if perhaps intelligent life on earth required far too many irreproducible chance events for it to have been repeated even in the billions of potential sites that must exist throughout the universe - and that, after all, maybe we are alone.
2. If we are looking for intelligent signals, we should at least do what we hope "others" are doing, and send out a signal - a simple (but unambiguously artificial) mathematical sequence. Any information exchange could wait until someone returned our call!
3. I like the idea that ordinary people like me can help a project which is as potentially important as SETI - but which is not likely to attract much, if any, public funding in the present intellectual climate.
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