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| Personal background |
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| I work as an executive editor for the german Network Computing magazine where I supervise the local Test Lab close to munich. There I have lots of different servers for testing with multiple cpu architectures and operating systems. As long as there are no active tests running on those systems I use the free CPU capacity for SETI. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think there's lots of intelligent life out there. The universe is far too big to just create one type of intelligent species. But I'm shure, those other species out there don't fly around in rotating saucers and capure humans for examination.
On the other hand I doubt that we will find and contact others out there with the level of technology we reaced so far. If mankind manages not to kill itself by ruining the planet, we might gain the necessary technology for interstellar travel during the coming centuries or millennia.
But even now man should struggle to proof that there is intelligent life in other solar systems even if the chance of succeeding is low. Once we shurely know, that we're not allone in the universe, it might change peoples way of thinking about homemade conflicts and - optimistically speaking - unite humans to a common goal of establishing a contact to other beings.
The discovery though would crash the beatiful picture of man and the universe being a creaton of some sort of god. All religious fantaics of any type of religion would try to fight against the discovery with all their might - as they always did throughout history.
And shure, we should send a beacon to outer space, with the message "If you hear this, don't rush to come to earth. This message has been out there for centuries - we might have blown the place apart in the meantime" |
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