I am a 27 years old application developer from Hamburg, Germany. I studied physics a couple of years ago, my main fields have been quantum physics and stellar physics.
Science Fiction is my life, I am a great Shadowrun and Battletech fan. (FASA rulez ;)

When a friend of mine and me heard about SETI@home it was a matter of seconds to decide whether to participate or not. There may be some very interesting things we could find out...

I do not hope to hear the first alien 'hello' or something like that. Space is my world, thus I studied physics. Being a bit crazy about that topic, I never studied it because I wanted to work as a physicist, but to learn more about my field of interest. Odd, eh? Spent years for studying something I do not use to earn my money... (c8} ...in fact I earn my money being the CTO of BrEdWalk.com...

Okay... my thoughts about SETI... Well, I guess there is alot of life out there besides our own. We live on one of nine planets around an average star. There are billions of stars like our sun within the galaxy we live in. And there are millions of galaxies like this in the universe. Think about it. Some millions multiplied with some billions, how gigantic is the chance that one of this myriads of stars that are like our sun has so much planetary material floating around it like our own? Even if just one of ten thousand stars has planets, there remain some trillion planets! If there is not any life out there under this conditions besides life on earth, I'll eat as many brooms drowned in mustard as stars exist with a smile on my face.

But will we discover it? Well, with our present technology I doubt it. The future could be to break the lightspeed barrier. Yes, Einstein, relativity and so on... But remember, that dimensional physics did not exists when the relativity theory was founded. There might be wormholes, dimensional anomalies and so on... If you dream a bit, you can imagine alot of ways to get past the limits of three dimensional bound travels...

... and participating in SETI@home, we are all able to dream, no?

"If there were no dreams, mankind still lived in caves."