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| Personal background |
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| I am a 29 year old computer programmer from Gainesville, Florida, USA. I love cartoons, jazz, Linux, and indie rock. I can't prove it, but I suspect that intelligent alien beings also enjoy cartoons and music (they probably don't use Linux though). When I am not coding or drawing cartoons, I get my exercise from digging holes in my backyard. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life definitely exists. The universe is too big for it not to. I suspect most extraterrestrials are simple, unintelligent microorganisms, equivalent to our bacteria or viruses. This type of life may even exist on other planets in our own Solar System.
Intelligent life is bound to exist too, though it is probably much more rare. I believe the main obstacle to communicating with these beings is our (current) inability to travel or converse faster then light speed. Until we can work around the E=mc^2 barrier, it is hard to see how we can get in touch with any aliens whose signals we find- not to mention that by the time we get their signal, their civilization will likely be long extinct. But, of course, it will be amazing enough to find any alien signal in the first place, which is why I participate in SETI@home...
Humans should definitely transmit a beacon for others to find. I vote that we send a video stream of Jet
Li's old Kung Fu movies. That way, the aliens will think twice about messing with us. Also, they will have the impression that all earthlings are Asian, which would be kind of funny.
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