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| As you may have guessed by my email, I'm here in the windy city and am proud to be looking for little green men. I've got anywhere from 3-6 pc's scanning at once, depending on how many of them happen to be working at any given moment. Most of them are pretty old, so my average work time per unit isn't that great, but my hours are up there. I'm all too happy to be part of the largest shared computing project on Earth! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. How arrogant we are to suggest we are the only life in the universe! ET life exists because the universe is just too big for it not to (as the Drake Equation sugegsts). This question always evokes that line from Contact ("If we are the only ones out here, that's a pretty big waste of Space). Besides, there are way too many credible witnesses and photographs of UFO's to suggest we haven't had some form of contact yet. We just haven't discovered it in the way our society can accept it. It's no coincidence that the increase of UFO sightings has skyrocketed since we blew up the first nuke and/or we started blasting the first tv signals into space.
As far as when we would discover it to the point where society CAN accept it, it will probably coincide with one of two events in human existence (and ideally, both of these events would happen around the same time): A. When we discover how to travel faster than light, and/or B. When we quit fighting amongst ourselves and establish and maintain a world government. Obviously, this won't happen in our lifetime, but I'd optimistically suggest between 3-7 generations from now.
I suppose the benefits and dangers are at both ends of the spectrum. If they do turn out to be hostile, face it: we won't have a chance. If they're not hostile, then the other end of the spectrum will be that we have so much to look forward to that we can't even fathom it.
2. Bring on the beacon and send an S.O.S.!! Seriously, we already are sending out a beacon in terms of TV Signals, but I suppose if we were to jack up the power enough and maybe focus it to our closest neighbors one at a time, my message would be a nice simple Hello.
3. I run and love the SETI@Home screensaver because the prospect of being Jodie Foster's role in Contact is so utterly tantalizing, it's irresistable. Plus, I like the friendly competition it inspires among the many people that use it.
My only suggestion would be to allow more than one SETI@home client to be run on a single PC. |
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