My name is Henrik Matsson and I live in a suburb of Stockholm in Sweden. I'm 22 years old.
Right now I'm studying political science though I'm still not sure what I want to do when I'm older.
In my spare time I usually sit in front of my computer, read books, listen to music or watch TV. All in all I'd say I'm a normal 22-year-old.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do believe there is life on other planets. I mean there are so many galaxies with so many stars and I suppose a lot of those stars have planets so there must be billions upon billions of planets out there. Planets that we know nothing about. Unfortunately I seriously doubt that we will find signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in my lifetime. I mean even if there are planets with life those civilizations would have to send some sort of signal that we could detect and even if they did it's not sure we would be able to detect it but who knows? One of these days you and your computer(s) might be involved in changing the way we look at the universe. That's what so cool about SETI@home. You can actually be involved in a project that's important for the human race. Even if it's highly uncertain that we will detect any signals I think it's important that we keep looking. Personally I think we should send signals and messages that aliens could detect with information about who we are and where we live. I seriously doubt that aliens would be hostile toward us. After all we humans aren't exactly the nicest people with wars and all but if we would find a signal we'd hardly set out to destroy an entire civilization even if we had the technology and the power to do so.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
