| Personal background |
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| I'm a fifteen-year-old from NY. I like computers in general (I can program in four languages! Whoo ha!), and I enjoy model rocketry. Just for the record, I don't think we'll ever be considered an advanced civilization until our spaceships launchings are no longer delayed by rainshowers. But that's just my opinion. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I've always wondered about the possibility of finding intelligent life out in space, and SETI@home seemed the best way to help out with the search. I didn't know that the program existed until I saw it mentioned in an article about parallel- and supercomputing. I decided that I should download the client on as many functional computers that I can. I think the project is a worthwhile venture. Even if it doesn't succeed, it lets us eliminate the possibilty of ETs using communications easily recognized by us. To tell the truth, I think it's narrow minded and maybe a tad arrogent to search the radio band for signs of intelligent life. Maybe the ETs see the radio band instead of use it for transmitting? They'd avoid our planet because it would be to bright to support life, or however they would describe an oversaturation of radio waves. And what if the ETs were telepathic? There would be no need for them to use a radio. To quote a famous philosopher, "How do you know your tests will work for that kind of thing if you've never found it?" It might be like using a metal detector to find unicorns in a sock drawer. But as I see it, SETI@home is in search of answers. Whether the answers amount to intelligent life or the need of another tool, that's still up in the air. |
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