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May I introduce myself. My name is Walther Swarte and I live and work in an small town called Vlissingen or in English: Flusing. Still don't know where? It's is a small town in The Netherlands at the sea. I work in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) at the support department at a shipyard (supporting over 700 users, it's quite a busy job). One of the nicest things in live is looking at the stars. I'm also a radio-amateur, callsign pd0scl. See http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pd0scl/ for more details.
Regards, Walther Swarte. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Q: Do you think extraterrestrial life exists? If so, when and how will humans discover it?
A: Yes I believe in extraterrestrial life. Believe in extraterrestrial intelligence is another question. We are quite intelligent but who says other extraterrestrial life is?Maybe the extraterrestrial life is still in 'the Neanthertaler period'. If extraterrestrial life exists we discover it by radio or by light. I don't believe in 'beam me up scotty'. So no physical contact possible for me.
Q: What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send?
A: Possible benefits are learning from eachother and knowing that life on earth is not as exclusive as we might think we are. The possible dangers of the discovery is war. Different believes might go to war (shame!).
Yes, we should transmit beacons. I suggest we should use morse code at slow speed. The information is not important, they just won't understand it.
Q.Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions?
A: I run Seti on 3 computers. Just because to help you out with computing the large amount of data. Views? All positive. Sorry at this moment no suggestions.
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