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| Personal background |
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I'm a post-graduate student at the Dept. of Slavistics at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. I do studies in Balkan linguistics, currently writing my PhD thesis on the innovation processes in the history of Balkan dialects. Other projects in my melting pot are origins of language and VAMPIRES!
I got the relevant scholarships for this quite late -- I'm 41 yrs old -- mainly due to setbacks in the Danish educational system through the 1990s.
I keep a mailing list for jokes & other fun. Join it if you want. Find more data on my home site at . |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life is possible, but I gather that most of the observations (UFOs, mysterious circles in crop fields) are not certain proofs of this. The peculiar thing about them is that their observations always coincide with the technological level of the observers, e.g., most UFOs are observed in the USA, which is also the technologically most advanced country. The UFOs were also believed to be flying objects, thus corresponding to the observers’ consciousness about aeroplane travels in the 1950s, when the first reports of UFOs came in.
Terrestrial life has only obtained an intelligence capable enough to perceive other life-forms during the last ca. 50 years, let alone the technological capacities to observe extraterrestrial life that are even more recent. If we say that Homo Sapiens has existed for 150,000 years, then 50 years is a quite short span of time, let alone the 2.3 billions of years that life has existed on earth. Now, if another life form on another planet should reach the level of interstellar detectable activity, i.e., as a civilisation, then man would need to be at least at the same cultural and technological level as the relevant extraterrestrial civilisation, or as a minimum at the present state. This requires some simultaneity (I here disregard the time lost by transferring the data over the immense distances) which very hardly coincide. The level of development of life and subsequently civilisation depends on factors that are crucial as to whether I can experience to see extraterrestrial special before I die. Rapid changes in temperatures on the pre-life Earth may have facilitated or eradicated the germs that were coming into existence. This may have postponed or accelerated the rise of life by centuries, millennia or even millions of years. In the end, had the temperatures been just 2 degrees milder 2.3 billion years ago, then the Eiffel Tower might have been built not in 1899 AD, but 1899 BC.
So when it comes to life on other planets, it may not even have passed the germ phase yet, |
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