Profile: Jari Ahola

Personal background
I was born in the 60’s, I have vague memories of the Moon landings. But from somewhere there the interest in space comes from.

Astronomy did not seem like a reasonable profession in Finland so I was lucky to find an other interesting area in the computer field.

So what would be nicer than finally have a change to combine computers and space in here Setiland?
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Extraterrestrial life? Something other than bacteria? Plants or even animals? Hard to say but probably life exists in the universe. Intelligent life? Even harder to say.

But if intelligent life exists and SETI@home finds it, I don’t think it would automatically mean much to majority of us here on Earth. Two weeks after the news had settled down to normal local scandal and catastrophe reports people would ignore the whole thing. And if someone makes small talk about it others would reply they know somebody who had spent his or hers holiday on that planet but that Hawaii was much better.

I don’t see any great impact on people’s beliefs and religions either, because religion is not filling the missing gaps of science but is a completely different area of study. And a discovery of intelligence would just open new possibilities to theological discussion.

If we would receive Encyclopedia Galactica and we understood it, that might have affect to our lives in form of advances in science and technology, maybe in advances in arts and philocofy, too.

Finding extraterrestrial life, preferably intelligent, would be a great discovery. Despite the skepticism I said above I know me and many others would value that finding. And I like to participate in the search.
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