The value of SETI, any? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 03:27 (4736 days ago) @ David Turell

Now we know there are lots of planets. Is there life on this galaxy? After 35 years with the galaxy 100,000 light years across, much to early to ask the question. Theologic implications? See as follows:

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/11/08/extraterrestrial-intelligence

Your title and the article kinda diverge: From SETI we got this:

Massively parallel distributed computing.

Google "Rosetta @home," "Protein Folding @home," and "Spinhenge @home" just to name 3.

The technology devised to help scientists study SETI data has spawned outgrowths to other fields, completely unrelated, but is having far reaches into medicine, physics, and mathematics. (primegrid.)

Crichton's criticism is correct: Even our own development has many, many chance events to credit. Mexico and South America would probably still be engaging in human sacrifice today had 1492 never happened.

Statistically speaking however, there will always be a stronger argument for even cross-pollination, than creation from an invisible, incorporeal being. (improbable is always more likely than impossible.)

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