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| Personal background |
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My cross in life to bear is that I'm an Artist, Natural Scientist and Technocrat with an over abundance of Imagination in one merry pot purée. Although somewhat contradictory in nature, it makes me a very restless,but creative, original and unique person.
My passion for anything Scientific/Technical/IT related makes me an “explorer†with a constant thirst to discover and experience new miracles of the universe we live in.
I’m always one of the first to try out a something new, and great is my disappointment it does not deliver.
I value working independently greatly, yet enjoy the camaraderie of a close-knit team. I believe for independent thought, innovativeness and creativity to flourish, you need time on your own, yet you have to cross-pollinate with your pears to open up other creative avenue’s.
My career the last 14 years has been that of multi-disciplinary consultant. I'm trained as a microbiologist and chemist.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1.) I do not think it is a question of if extraterrestrial life exist, I think it is a question of when we discover ET or when ET discover us!
Possibly, we have already discovered primitive extraterrestrial life, i.e. the controversial Mars meteorite discovered in Antarctica. It will be the kindest to humanity if we first confirm ancient and primitive life on Mars or possibly in the higher atmosphere of Venus and/or under the ice on Europa. This will give us some time to come to grip with the concept that we are not the only life in the universe.
SETI@home however could and possibly will fasttrack the discovery of extraterrestrial life. I can't but wonder, if we are not even ready to admit that we are not the only sentient species on our own planet, are we are ready to face up to the fact that we are not the only sentient, technologically advanced species in the universe?
2.) I believe the advantages far outweigh the potential dangers by transmitting a beacon for ET to find. If we could ever find a way of communicating with ET, think of what we can learn. Think of the pitfalls we can watch out for by learning from an older, more advanced and hopefully wiser civilization.
What should we send? This question makes me think of Arthur C. Clark's Space Odyssey 2001 when Bowman is "reborn" after his journey through the wormhole. He is reborn as an infant, an entity to be cared for and nurtured under the watchful eyes of an unimaginably older, wiser, powerful ET. Perhaps we should transmit a baby’s cry! We have only really discovered technology in the last 200 years, we are in our infancy and we badly need "tlc".
3.) I run SETI@home because I hope to confirm in my own lifetime that ET exists. The existence of ET is one of the fundamental questions that need to be answered for humanity. I believe it is only then that we will be able to lift our eyes from the cradle and focus on far greater challenges and rewards that is waiting for humanity out in the cosmos. |
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