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I live in Ventura, California, I'm 47, and have a wife and 2 sons, aged 19 and 12. I build those really cool wooden playsets in people's back yards, and dabble in computer graphics and am a digital shutterbug.
SETI at home seemed like a pretty right on idea, I've been interested in both hard science and science fiction ever since I first learned to read, and well, a P4 with 250 meg of RAM has a LOT of processing power to spare so it seemed like a natural to put some of it to use for a worthy cause. |
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I'm with Carl Sagan on the E.T. subject, it's certain that life exists elsewhere and it's only a matter of time until it's found or it finds US. As far as the benefits from such contact go, I think any responsible race has to have some kind of Prime Directive sort of law stating they can't disseminate technology to less developed cultures, but I think just the knowlege that we're not alone would be one hell of a boost. Consider children: When they're young, they are at the very center of the universe, and as such can be very selfish, petty, and of course, self-centered. When they get older, they learn that even though they are still at the center of the universe, it is a shared universe and it's not about THEM all the time. As it is with all people as a culture. Our horizons expand with the knowlege that those horizons exist.
As far as the dangers of ET contact go, it's tough to believe in interstellar conquerors (a book titled, "To Serve Man"), the distances are just too much. I'd be more afraid of cultural disruption and an End Of The World attitude from all the religeous fundamentalists messing up the worlds economy from fear.
A beacon for contact? No. We put out enough RF to compete with a small star, anybody who thought to look for it in the right place could find it and know it was artificial. |
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