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| I live in the USA. I am 33 years old. I am no one special. No university degrees oe special education from anywhere. I am just a simple ordinary man. A simple ordinary man with a High School Diploma. I am in the service industry. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Of course extraterrestrial life exists! The question really is in what form, and whether or not we will ever make contact. It's a very big universe out there, certainly big enough to contain more than one form of life, but maybe too big for contact. If contact is made then there will be both benefits and dangers. All we have to do is to examine the benefits and dangers of contact with other races during our own discovery of our own planet. Attitudes, values, morals, beliefs - they will all be challenged. Out of this comes growth and hopefully, growth in wisdom. Technological changes must also be affected, as contact between any two or more life forms from different planets will inevitably be based upon different technological discoveries. We can't discount the possibility of contagious disease. We only have to use our own history, for example the transmission of smallpox and venereal diseases by Europeans during exploration, to see the potential for disaster. This naturally could be magnitudes worse when we deal with alien life-forms, but one thing I believe makes it inevitable is that our passion for discovery and need to learn about ourselves and our place in universe will drive us to make such contact. We must also transmit a beacon. I don't understand at the very least why every craft that leaves this planet as part of scientific work doesn't have a message inscribed on a plate within it. The odds of contact by this means are very remote, but the likelihood of contact being made possible is certainly increased by doing this. In some ways our conventional earth side broadcasts are already providing a beacon, but why not also transmit an invitation. Surely any form of life intelligent enough to make contact would do so for reasons other than good old Earth paranoia of conquest. I use my computer for processing SETI@home data because it costs me nothing and I am making a contribution to a very important project. Without SETI@home, we may never know! |
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