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| I was born in 1985 and am currently studying BSc Physics with Astronomy at Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. I was born in Sheffield (England), brought up in Gateshead (also England, in the north east, just south of Newcastle upon Tyne), and my permanent home is in Weardale, County Durham (NE England, NOT Ireland. The county bit tends to confuse people frequently). My hobbies include endurance horse riding, fencing, english civil war reenactments, listening to celtic folk music, playing it on my tin whistle and playing the Northumbrian small pipes. Oh, my family are also smallholders and keep many woolly monsters called sheep. Very noisy. They like to Baa at night. lots. very loudly. Advice: Don't keep sheep unless you have good double glazing or are stone deaf. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I think that the statistical likliehood of there being other life in the universe other than on our planet is quite high, since its a pretty big universe, so its really likely that there are other planets with earth type conditions. I don't know when we will discover the life, since the ET could be at the other end of the universe and we might not ever get there (or them here). The how of the discovery could be either them or us picking up signals (of any sort) from the other and going to find out whats happening. If we find an nice, intelligent, benign ET we could use them as a reference point to resolve any faults we perceive within ourselves, share technology, trade, learn more about our universe etc. Downsides: nasty, evil, war-like, cruel and possibly stupid ET might come to (wait for it...) "DESTROY THE EARTH!!! Mwhahahaha!!!" I don't think it would be prudent to transmit a beacon because that might be construed as an act of aggression by any particularly paranoid species, or tempting warmonger types to come and "DESTROY THE EARTH!!! Mwhahahaha!!!" etc. Alternatively it could be a complete waste of time because we don't know if the ET uses Electromagnetic communications. If we did transmit a beacon we should make it very clear that we like meeting new people(?) but should be careful not to display any weaknesses or aggression. I run seti@home because if life does exist outside of Earth and if it does use EM comms, I want to help find it. Besides, why not? SETI@HOME could consider whether or not ET uses EM comms or some other mode of comms that we haven't discovered yet or if they bother using communications at all. We could be dealing with a Hive-system. You could also include plan and side views of the universe/galaxy to show where our WUs are from. or maybe a 3D map? |
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