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| Personal background |
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| I was born in Bergen, Norway in 1976 (that makes me 27 at the time I write this). I still live in the same city and work in a postal company. Although not competing anymore, I am still a member in a small rowing club and work out there occasionally. Scuba diving is also one of my hobbies and I love exploring the underwater world. Space has always been one of my great interests, and i hope that someday it will be accessible to everyone who wish to go there. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am as sure as one can be without knowing for a fact that life exists elsewhere. However, I don't think it exists in the form that many people expect (small green men with big black eyes). If you think about the diversity of life here on earth, chances are most alien creatures will not resemble a human. As to when and how we will discover it, who knows? Maybe tomorrow or maybe not at all. I think that the first evidence of life beyond our planet will come from one of the probes we send out in our solar system. Microbes or bacteria for example. As to finding intelligent life I think that SETI is a long shot, but currently our best hope.
If and when we do find something, I think it would be safest to stay passive for a while and try to learn the most we can about ET before sending information to them about us. Anything can happen should we be successful in making contact. It is only a 50% chance that contact would do us good, I think.
To complicate things more, the signals we might receive will probably be hundreds of years old, or more. We have changed a lot in just a couple of centuries, and the alien race will probably have progressed too.
I run SETI@home because I want my computer to do something useful when I'm not using it. Since I do not want to lend my computer to someone with commercial interests in their project and I would like to see SETI succeed in their mission SETI@home was a natural choice. |
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