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| Currently crunching for Ars Technica Team Lamb. Luv them gauntlets, just as I love the online community that is TLC. Come join us in our forums. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The thing that fascinates me about SETI is Fermi's Paradox. The math says that the universe should be teeming with life, surely we should have noticed it by now. The religious and sociological implications of this make it the greatest of all scientific mysteries. Do all technological societies reach a level of spiritual enlightenment that renders technology unnecessary? Or is there a universal "oops" that accidentally destroys all technological societies, be it nanotechnology, high energy physics, genetic manipulation, etc. Or worse yet, do all technological societies collapse under the weight of their own economic interdependencies?
Unfortunately, the silence of the skies to this point does not bode well for us. Hopefully we'll find out that using the electromagnetic spectrum for communication lasts for only a minute portion of a society's lifespan, and we will soon regard it as primitive as we regard smoke signals today. Still, the math is inexorable. There should be somebody else, a lot of sombodies actually, out there at or near *our* level of technology. Perhaps the answer lies in another paradox... Olber's paradox. |
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