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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do you run SETI@home?
As a Sci-Fi nut, I am duty bound to take part in a project that could just possibly bring about the dreams of the authors. It is also my belief that should we detect signals from another civilisation, it will bring about a tremendous leap in all branches of science.
Thoughts about ETI
With the huge number of possible worlds in the universe, it would be the height of conceit to assume that we were the only civilisation that existed. There must be many others, in various stages of evolution. The problem is that we can only prejudge others against ourselves. Will they even think like us? Our thoughts are shaped by our environment, so why expect an alien from a vastly different world to act like us, or even use radio? We may be lucky and detect signals, but will they be accidental transmissions, a by-product of some other process, or will they use radio for communication as we do?
When we finally meet our alien creatures, what then? Will they recognise us as thinking beings? If they come from a radical environment, it could be that they won’t, or we may be the ones who don’t recognise them. Are we sure that a race from an ocean world hasn’t already set up an outpost in the bottom of one of our seas? We haven’t even explored the deep-water areas of our own planet.
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