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I am 47 years old and work as a marketing technical associate for one of the few high-tech dotcoms that succeeded and thrived. I am a tired, techno-geek who thinks that technology, although miraculous, has enabled the baser aspects of humanity to manifest along with the good, and in some respects is the dog walking us rather than us walking the dog.
Basically I have a love/hate relationship with technology; it is not only something that pays the bills, it creates them (literally and figuratively) as well.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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It is foolish to think that ET life DOESN'T exist. It's just a question of when we connect. The greatest danger is finding a superior, arrogant life form that thinks we're quite tasty. On the plus side we might get some badly needed help. We're not in control of this contact situation and we can't avoid potential contact even if we wanted to. Basically we're sitting ducks with outsized egos. For this reason I don't favor transmitting a signal; we've sent out enough crap already anyway.
I get great amusement at the naive thought people seem to have that ET will view and judge us in what we consider to be a sane, rational manner. This is a HUGE projection of human qualities onto something inherently alien. It is much more likely that ET will pick up something like a gangsta rap video, or a simulcast broadcast of a Wagnerian Opera and evaluate humanity on these items.
The funny thing is they will be right on the money...
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