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I'm 34 years old and come from Zurich, Switzerland. I have a wonderful wife and a really cute daughter of 3 years.
My occupation is vice-chief of immissions measurements of air pollution in the Kanton Zurich. My hobbies are my family, electronics, development of electronic schematics, robotronic, forest and wood (as former forest-engineer ETH).
In the night I like to look up into the sky and wondering who is out there, let the thoughts go on the journey through the stars...
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm convinced that extraterrestrial life exists. Due to the distance and rules of physics I doubt that we'll ever get into contact with ET-lifeforms. But just the thought not to be alone in space makes feel well. I'm convinced that the life-forms out there needn't be of the same type as on earth. We know only the terrestrial biology and it is very heavy to think about other forms or just imagine them. Authors of science-fiction have the liberty of mind to invent life-forms as much as possible. Maybe one of them really exists?
Maybe, when there ever will be a contact with other life-forms, it will be like in the days of big discoveries (Marco Polo with China, Columbus with the caribbean islands, and so on). But we should learn something out of the passed history. Violence is not the right thing. We have to accept that other life doesn't want any contact with us, so let them alone. On the other hand, we hope ET-lifes isn't on the trip for violent conquest. In the best case, we could learn a lot about their technology and their culture or way of life.
Humans may transmit any beacons - but who knows in which direction? Anyway, since radio-transmission has been invented humans are transmissioning in ervery direction, not to forget the voyager satellite. If ET-life-forms want to know if there is any life outside, I think they will start their search on the same way (if they know radio transmission) as humans.
I run seti@home just for coincidence. Years ago in military I saw a comrade in the command-office using seti@home as screen saver. On may 2001 I found the seti-homepage and decided to participate to this big project, being a tooth-wheel for its success. |
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