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| Personal background |
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Born 1958. Educated as a banker. After 17 years of messing around with other peoples money I had enough of this in 1996 and I have worked with computer support since then.
Scubadiver since 1982. Chairman of the board of my divingclub www.s-u.g.dk. Retired vicepresident of the Danish Sportsdivers Federation www.sportsdykning.dk.
Alpine skier since 1988, member of the very social skiclub "Paddingtonklubben" www.paddingtonklubben.dk
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I really don't know if we're alone, but if there are billons of galaxies in the universe, why sould we be the only "intelligent" species?
I really don't know if we'll discover anything or anybody. And if we do it might be tomorrow or it might be 1000 years from now. It's hard to say what the benefits from discovering other lifeforms will be. It depends upon the actual situation in the world. It could be good or it could be very bad if mankind is still at war with itself when or if contact is established. I hope that both "they" and "we" are "mostly harmless" when/if we make contact and that every single individual in both worlds will know what's going on so we can avoid the traditional government/military reaction towards strangers that could destroy our planet a hell of a lot faster than we are destroying it now ourselves.
On the other hand it might not be so bad if some little green guy with a huge zap-gun would point it at the president of the united states and kindly ask him to join the civilized worlds effort to reduce pollution of our planet. For some sick reason the US won't reduce it's emission of CO2 like the rest of us.
I enjoy science fiction and I have read the most odd books so I can't really believe that we should be the only species with some kind of a brain.
I would like to meet Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox in person but I think that if we discover somebody or somebody discovers us it might be a species that we have never imagined could exsist.
I think the SETI@home project is a genius way to let people around this world join a common cause. I think it's absolutely brilliant that the SETI project also has shown the way for others to make gigantic science projects possible through the power of millions of people and computers working together.
AND FINALLY.......
THANKS A LOT to all of You guys who helped me reaching my 25,000 WU certificate in SETI Classic when the datatabase problem lasting almost two weeks towards the end of the project made it impossible for me to achieve my goal by myself. Without the database problem I would have been comfortably over 25,000 WU\\'s by dec. 15 2005, but as things turned out I was roughly 230 WU\\'s short - and then "the community" led by "WALDYR" got on my case and started throwing WU's in my direction. From being short I got 839 WU's over the 25,000 before I managed to shout S T O P ! ! ! loud enough in the forums. I hope that some of You could actually stop in time enabling You to help others in need of WU's to reach their goals too.
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