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| My name is Michael and I am from a village in Germany called Waldbreitbach. During the week I study Business Administration in Trier. I was born in 1977. If you want to know more visit http://www.ju-waldbreitbach.de |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| SETI (in all it's forms) is probably one of the greatest quests of all time. While I believe that there is intellegent life out in the universe, I doubt that we will find it in our life time (at least via radio waves). When (and if) we do detect ET signals, it will have profound scientific significance. We will get a lot knowledge about the development of life in the universe. Even if we do not discover it would be a kind of sucess, because then we will know that there is nothing were we have already searched. After all we then have to search other kinds of signals, or in other regions of the space. Perhaps we will then start a search with a completely new kind of technology, that we can´t even imagine now. As far as whether we should send out a beacon, we already have been for the past hundred years (or so). But we should start to send something like an encyclopaedia with a powerful signal. I think that continuing discoveries in quantum mechanics will eventually lead to as big an advance in communications as radio was in the late 19th and early 20th century (and will perhaps alow us to "talk" to anyone out there). I run Seti@home to help this project. Its a great idea to use millions of computers to manage the analysis of this huge amount of data. |
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