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Good Day!
My favorite hobbies are reading, writing, camping, hiking, sailing, fishing, travelling, listening to music, cooking, relaxing in front of a fireplace with a cup of hot chocolate, studying, and last, but not least, learning Finnish.
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I do think E/T life exists. The odds are in favor of this. As to whether they will be numerous or only a handful is anyone's guess. But the galaxies could also be teaming with life that we are ignorant of in our current state of technology. We could be too far out in our Milky Way to attract attention, or they could be deliberately avoiding us, considering us far too primitive to contact.
I suspect they will discover us before we discover them.
Possible benefits and dangers of a much more technologically advanced society 'meeting' a less advanced society has been played out time and time again on our planet throughout the centuries. There are usually benefits to the more advanced society while the less advanced suffers societal degradation anywhere from the loss of culture and identity to total destruction and devastation. Our quandary rests in whether we will be the more advanced society or the less advanced one in any E/T encounter. If they are the more advanced, will they be more compassionate than we have been in the past to our own kind?
Should we beacon? Why not? We have inadvertently been sending a blazing beacon of radio waves into space for over half a century. Why not appear as if we know what we are doing and make it an official and scholarly scientific quest? Perhaps this very leap into the scientific will produce empirical results.
"Contact" (the movie) had it correct. Math is a constant and the purest science. Fill space with prime numbers, formulae, functions, and theorems until some E/T asks us to please stop.
SETI@home is unusual, in that it gives the common person a way to feel involved in this highly precedent setting process. By running this program, we become more than individuals.
We become united in an idea which transcends our everyday lives.
No matter what the future may hold, may we all find what we are searching for.
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