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I'm 25 and I live in Rome, where I Study Telecommunications Engineering. I'm an enthusiastic reader of sci-fi and fantasy novels, and former (for my degree's sake...) role-game player. My favourite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, William Gibson, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and H.P.Lovecraft. I love all the Star Trek series, Star Wars, Matrix and Tarantino's movies. My other passion (apart from brunettes) is my Pc, I've got an Athlon XP 1700 (god bless Amd for having made a processor better than P4 and which costs a lot less, demonstrating the victory of a good project against brute force of clock speed!) and I pass at least four hours a day in front of it, studying, playing, and of course always running Seti@home!
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do believe extraterrestrial life exists for a simple questions of statistics: there are billions of planet only in our galaxy, and a part of them is surely similar to our Earth, so why life shouldn't be also elsewhere in the Universe? I find some people's "Earthcentrism" really stupid. Discovering and eventually (if they're intelligent) contacting this alien life forms is another thing... We could be separated from them by hundreds of thousands light years and the idea of a direct contact is only science fiction, at least at the present state of our technology (but we don't know theirs...), so if on one hand I believe extraterrestrial life exists, on the other I'm not one of those simple-minded, enthusiastic people who say "They're here, welcome to our world, please take us with you..." etc. I run Seti because I like the idea of sharing heavy computation on lower machines (this principle works also for lots of other things, not only for computing power!) and I think it's always worth trying even if the chances are low!
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