| Personal background |
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I am 25 years old and I'm currently residing in Bucharest, Romania. I have a computer science degree and I'm working as IT manager for a web development company.
Hobbies: computers (naturally:)), computer games (only strategy and RPGs - no need to rest those gray cells even when relaxing), science fiction, swimming (I am basically a nerd, but I need to do some movement, too) and an avid interest on everything that has to do with the human race (I would have preffered to have more than one intelligent race to study, but I wasn't that lucky. However, as you all, I am working on it:)).
Besides that, life has been kind to me, so I have nothing extraordinary to tell. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I just joined the SETI@home community. As I'm writing this I completed only 3 work units. I've heard of the project before but as it seems I was too lazy to join. I'm feeling a little bit guilty about this since in the last two years I could have completed at least 500 work units with a minimum of effort.
The reason I'm telling you this is because there are virtually millions of people out there wasting time just as I did. According to SETI@home statistics I completed more work units than 46% of the 3,7 million people in their database. Should all of these people join the effort to find another civilization, the guys at SETI could process a lot more information a lot faster and if there is another civilization in the neighborhood they would find it earlier.
Why do I think it's important that we find another intelligent race as soon as possible? Well, the keyword is competition. Major advances are the result of it. Now as the human race tends toward a single world-wide civilization it is more important than ever to find a competitor, another civilization to compete with, to compare with.
How would you feel if in 10 years from now you will find out that there is a civilization just around the corner and you could have discovered it right now if you had enough computer power? Wouldn't you feel like you wasted 10 years? If a human being is wasting 10 years of his life, it's not going to influence the society, but how about a society wasting 10 years? Wouldn't you as human beings belonging to that society feel guilty?
That's the reason I run SETI@home. I don't want to look back in 10 years or 50 years from now, and feel bad about myself. I will like to say that I did everythink I could to make the first contact event happen as soon as possible.
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