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| Personal background |
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| I grew up in rural Wyoming. I'm a fifty-five year old who travels extensively as a geophysical consultant. My hobbies are writing and digital photography/imaging. I currently live wherever the project is located and take breaks in Wyoming and Colorado. I run SETI on a 333P2/384RAM and recently added a 1.3AMD/512RAM. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I sincerely doubt that Homo Sapiens Sapiens has much of a concept of what intelligence really is, let alone how vast a subject it could be. I think this also applies to our fledgling concepts of what actually constitutes what we call life. The narrow, almost infantile, concepts we struggle with now are not terribly inclusive, and mostly limited to the cliched "Life as we know it." paradigm. We can only try the things we are capable of percieving. This is one of them.
No one can even guess when it will be discovered, if it is. Benefits and disadvantages are unkown at this time. whether it is beneficial or not is entirely subjective. I suppose an ET could show us a cure for disease or a cleaner energy. They could also have us for lunch. It's nothing but pure speculation. Put out a beacon? Sure, why not?
I run SETI@home because it's all I know to do to promote exploration, of any kind, outward from our self-oriented concepts. So I do it and I enjoy it. |
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