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I heard about a study at a prestigious university where the students of the Psychology Dept. analyzed the Engineering Dept. and determined that on average the Engineers displayed mild symptoms of autism.
As a person that has worked in IT groups for close to a decade I would say that my anecdotal evidence supports this clinical study.
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I think that contributing to SETI is like occasionally buying lottery tickets the chance of winning is 1 in a trillion per year. However just like putting $5 on the football game, it makes it a lot more fun to think about. Besides, what else am I going to do with all those wasted processing cycles?
I definitely think that alien life exists, the Universe is really REALLY -R-E-A-L-L-Y-! BIG. Humans might never find any other life that can talk to us. That doesn't mean it isn't out there, just that the chances of finding it are very slim. Our robotic or bio-engineered or cybernetic descendants (post-human?) successors may find it.
If we do find it we will probably end up intercepting an alien version of "I LOVE LUCY", or intercepting a simple binary message being sent from a planet to a simple "Pioneer" like space craft. You know, we spend years trying to decipher the code, and in 10,000 years when we manage to get the attention of the originators of the message and ask them they will reply:
"Well, that was a long time ago.... but we think the message was
'turn the camera to the left a little and wait 60000 seconds for
next instruction' "
It won't mean much, and it will be impossible to communicate with them because the round trip time will be so long that entire civilizations could rise and fall between correspondences. I think that faster than light communication methods do exist and that we or our successors will discover those someday. Then we may find that there are lots of alien civs out there chatting with each other. And the latency will still be like sending a letter from ancient Rome to the Mongols. It will take months or years to get a reply. However, simply proving that there is another intelligence out there that can think and talk would change the way that HUMAN-BEINGS contemplate all things from Apartheidism to Zoology.
We definitely should broadcast messages. We should broadcast to the most likely life-sustaining Stars within a 100 lig |
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