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| Personal background |
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I'm a 21 years old student from Braunschweig, Germany. I finished the Gymnasium (German kind of a highschool) and now I'm studying electrotechnics. I was as long as I can imagine very interested in technics and the knowledge, how things work. I'm doing a lot of computer-related stuff and also some little electronic constructing, especially playing around with GSM-phones and tuning them.
I would say, I'm a 'control freak'. I believe that the ability of learning and understanding as much as possible about something gives you the power to influence it no matter how big or difficult it looks by the first view. Depending on what I learned during my physics lessons I would even say that anything could be possible, when it's not prohibited by a basic natural law. This means, that we could even brake the final frontier of the lightspeed in a far future, who knows, our universe keeps still MANY undiscovered secrets.
Since I'm a big StarTrek fan (you can ask me EVERYTHING about DS9 :-), I find very much excitement in thinking about the possibility that we're not alone and imagining, what would happen, if we could PROVE it.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well, I'm quite sure that there is life somewhere outside, just because of the simple fact of a) the immense dimensions of space with an uncountable amount of stars and planets, and b) the probability that earth is the only one of some billion or trillion planets is so insane low that it seems completely foolish to think we were alone. But even if there would be a LOT of intelligent life in space, the dispersion due to the mind boggling distances becomes a big problem, if we want to prove their existence. But if we do so, there are still some points open: If SETI tracks a signal from ET, we wouldn't be able to know much more than that there was some thousand or million years ago an intelligent civilization. We wouldn't know if they died out a long time before the first manlike lifeform. Surely, if we would realize that we're not alone, a new era could come with global understanding and peace (remember "ID4:Independence Day").
Another possibility is that they find and visit us, not very calming if they don't come in peace...
I think we shouldn't send signals out there as long as we don't develop a technology to communicate faster than light and with no loss at big distances, just because our signal would be to weak to be recieved by someone.
Let's come to SAH. I'm not very optimistic to find ET with it, just because I don't expect them to send with EM-waves. But if there's just a little chance to find them by this way we should do it because it's much more frustrating to sit on your back and do nothing than just try something with the risk of failing. And then there is also this feeling of being part of something big, maybe the biggest experiment ever.
Folks you did a great job! But please do more frequent upgrades. Maybe it's too difficult to keep it up-to-date, but our growing CPU-Power should be used by the client with introducing even more powerful algorithms and routines.
What about distributing the sourcecode? Maybe some freaks could improve it and help to find what we are all looking for. |
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