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| Personal background |
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Hi. I was 5 years old when man landed on the Moon for the first time (which makes me kind'a old now ;)), and I was hooked. The Space Adventure has been my passion since then, unfortunately there's not much you can do about it where I live (Portugal), so that's it for being an astronaut. I also like computers (and other pseudo-intelligent machines) so I ended up as SysAdmin anyway, which
is all too well since I can play God now :) ("SysAdmin is the word for "God" in a users mouth" :)) ).
I design and play strategy games (computer-controlled), most of them Sci-Fi, and I also (in spite of my "advanced" age) like to play fantasy role-playing games with my "ageless" friends :).
I raced in competition karts and even got to win quite a few times (They didn't let me fly the shuttle... This was the closest I got from the 2G's the shuttle delivers :)) ). Now I'm moving to kite-surfing (also trying to get some "lift out of this rock").
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I think that e.t. life SHOULD exist. I also think that being the Solar System an "outer rim" system makes it much more difficult to contact / being contacted by other civilization (lucky those who got home closer to the galaxy core... but not TOO close ;) ).
2. Well... We never know what's "out there", good or bad. But chances are that we are already transmitting "garbage" into the space anyway so we'll atract the "baddies" (if any) too, perhaps with a (clever) beacon we have more
chances to also atract the "good guys" (if any) ;).
3. When I was a kid, I was dreaming that one day I would be landing on Mars, but now I'm afraid I won't even be alive when someone does that... One of the few things that keeps me hoping that people won't forget the "greatest adventure of all times" and that man will return to the stars is this SETI program and its more than 2 million users. Maybe we'll never contact no-one, and chances are that, if we do, it won't be during the lives of all the people that are reading these lines. Maybe there IS no-one... Well, but what's really important is to keep the dream alive forever and reach for mankind's true destiny, the Stars! |
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