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I started out to join SETI@home back in '99, mostly for fun and because it was a cool idea. It is truly amazing to see how well the idea worked and how far it has come so far - and it is still going strong. That's why I am still an active contributor.
I am the sort of person to be intrigued by extreme inventions: as simple as it gets is often the most elegant solution, and at the sime time endlessly complex systems exist that are baffling. Think about a machine like a human body. How many small details are involved to make it all work! How little a disruption it would take to stop that machine. And yet, it's one of the most stable things on this earth (excluding geology, that is :-)).
I'm a graduate in IT and economics, which makes me sort of half-geek, half-accountant, and with a keen interest in science as well as science fiction. How far can we really go? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Nobody I ever read said it better than Carl Sagan: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html[/url]. Read it, then think about this place we call home. There is no more humbling experience, none more sobering, than to realize how infinitely small our entire world is.
Be careful with it. We have no other home.
- It is conceivable that other inhabitable planets exist in the universe. But what are the chances of us finding it? Going there? Staying there?
And then, to find life there or anywhere else is even more improbable. But it just might happen. Maybe. |
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