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| Personal background |
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We-ell...
I was born in 1972, lived a peaceful life until I finished my master's thesis and became a full-fledged historian - and unemployed. Now working as computer support and system administrator and instructor in Siegen.
Married.
Hobbies include, but are not limited to: anything SF, sailing, my wife, my cats and last but not least VGA Planets. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life exists. Period. One can interpret the statistics as malevolant as possible - still there are zillions of civilizations out there. Main problem: space is so full of space! The astronomical distances are so great that travelling them (at sub-lightspeed) would take longer than the universe's age. So visitors from elsewhere are highly unlikely, unfortunately.
But communication? Let's try!
And why seti@home? Well, people claim, that we have too many problems here to bother ourselves with trying to contact other species. I disagree. Our homemade problems all result from the fact that mankind has not yet learned to work together. But in history nothing was ever more uniting for a group than the contact with other groups. Wouldn't all the picky differences of religion, skin colour or ideology fade, in contrast to something really ALIEN?
And ADDITIONALLY we would have the chance to learn!
So:
First contact, the faster the better! |
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