Profile: giampiero

Personal background
I am form Taranto, (yes, the second letter is "a" not an "o" :-), a medium sized city in South East Italy. I was born there on October 19, 1969, and i normally go back there every summer to see a bunch of old friends. I' ve been studying robotics and control engineering in Pisa (Italy), Glasgow (Scotland), Atlanta (GA), and now i am a Research Assistant in the Aerospace department at West Virgnina University (Morgantown WV).
I definitely work too much, but when i don't, i enjoy playing tennis, and of course (being italian), soccer.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Well, given the huge number of galaxies (let alone stars) in the whole universe i really think that (intelligent) extraterrestrial life must exists !!. But i also think that extraterrestrial life is probably different from terrestrial one in ways we cannot possibly conceive, so we should not give anything for granted in thinking about it. Probably the few civilizations that are similar to us in having the will and the technology to communicate, are also too far away, so chances are that we will never discover each other.
Personally i don't think the SETI research will ever discover anything. Anyway, this does not mean we should not even listen. I also think that we should constantly transmit a message, something based on prime numbers maybe.
I have used SETI@home because i really like a lot the idea of using spare processing power to do something useful, and i like even more the idea of joining all those computers to have a 50 Teraflop/s machine, WOW !!!

That being said, i will soon switch to folding@home or climate prediction project, so, goodbye guys, running seti has been fun!
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