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| Personal background |
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| I'm a physicist working as project manager and system engineer for an Italian company in the space industry. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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As many others, I expect that life is a generic phenomenon in the universe. Darwinian selection is one of the most general Nature's driving forces, and one can't see reasons why it should have been triggered only by earth's specific conditions.
But what about intelligent life? Is intelligence a necessary - or at least probable - outcome of evolution? This question seems more interesting to me. On earth, almost all species do very well without developing any special intelligence. For instance, bacteria are more successful than us in many respects.
About our hope to be detected by ET, if they exist, I think we should consider carefully the option of sending out focused radio signals. It seems to me that most ET enthusiasts overlook the possibility that other intelligent species could be hostile. On earth, natural selection has favoured aggressivity. Aggressive species are successful species. Are there reasons why this should be false on a scale larger than planetary? |
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