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Hello. My real name is Jim and I am from Northern Ireland, and I came across Seti@home firstly as a means to benchmark the performance of my new computer system (purchased at overclockers.co.uk - cheesy plug) and it quickly turned into somewhat of an addiction with the help of the friendly/helpfull/slightly mad people in the TeamOcUK seti forums where I frequently lurk. So the old computer has now been dug up and resurected to help out.
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Its really only now that Im starting to think about what Seti@home is all about, and it does seem to me to be a very worthy, if not an essential endeavour for us as a species to at least make an effort at.
The vastness of space is too big for us to even contemplate, and to think we are alone would be a little arogant on our part. Taking part, although only a very small part, in this project has opened my eyes to how small we really are.
Finding life elsewhere would really be a shock to the system for human kind as a whole, but a shock that we really do need.
Im not sure about the "should we transmit a beacon for others to find" question. Basically because we dont for certain know what technologies or languages other beings would use, or how ours would be translated or percieved. How could you be sure we werent sending out a hostile signal?
On the other hand, if we dont send out some sort of signal that reaches deep into space, the chance of us being found are pretty remote, for the same reasons we havent found anything, YET 8^)
Id love it to happen in my life time, or my next one. |
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