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| I am a new media designer and work on interactives and web sites. I have been interested in Radio Astronomy since doing illustrations for Cosmic Search magazine published out of Ohio State University in the 1970's by a Dr. Kraus. At the time O.S.U. had one of the world's ten largest radio telescopes, produced a radio map of the northern hemisphere, and was doing SETI research. I recently went to the Very Large Array in New Mexico and to the Green Bank telescope in Green Bank, WV (the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope) where I was allowed to climb the telescope and take Quicktime VR panoramas . |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| It is refreshing to see that this type of research is now seen as legitimate and important scientific endeavor. It prevously had to overcome (and still does) associations in the popular mind with flying saucers and science fiction. We are the universe becoming conscious - carbon atoms contemplating themselves. Are there any others like us? It seems likely that life is a natural consequence of cerrtain favorable conditions throughout the universe. How rare or how common these conditions are, we don't yet know. It is unlikely that other civilizations are at the exact same level of development we are. Would they even be interested in communicating with us? Perhaps most of them have perished by nuking themselves or by not taking care of the planet they were living on. We will only find out if we try. It will be a long haul commitment to do this kind of research but technological advances make finding something sooner more hopeful. The screen saver idea is terrific, enabling thousands of interested people to donate computer time. I hope something is discovered in my life-time. It is great to be able to make a tiny contribution. I am not opposed to sending a beacon, but it may take hundreds of years to receive an answer. |
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