Profile: Helmut Hoffmann

Personal background
I'm from Germany(Cologne). I'm 31 years old. I'm working for Ford Motor Company as a vehicle engineer. My hobbies are my daughters, Gym sports, playing chess and Karting. I'm interested in everything which is affecting extraterrestrial life in a serious matter.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Yes, everywhere does exist what we would describe as life, but I don't think that we're going to discover those life forms in the near future. I think that we might get some relics of signals which were sent out millions of years ago.
I think that if we would get in contact with another civilization,the benefit could be to adopt new technologies in case they are in situation to provide new technologies. The problems could be to have total different ambitions in life or moral concepts. That could cause a war or other hard conflicts.

Regarding the beacon, I think that there is no danger to do it not. Maybe another civilisation will get this beacon as a relict from us. So they should know that anywhere else was a civilization.
We should send a music song, repeating constatly from a good performer(Madonna?) because we cannot assume that are able to interpret or to understand anything from us. They should know where we are. Everything else will go then it's way.
I'm running SETI because I would like to support projects like this, which have much more sense as a lot of other bad things humuans are doing.

Some suggestions:
Could you provide a detailed description of SETI home client program. A detailed description how it works from a mathematical point of view.
Make it possible to run SETI home client independant from a network connection.
DATAS which haven't been calculated should be able to save on a disk and to calcuate on other PC's.

Have you been succesful with any of the results or have you been in the situation that you thought you have found ETI??
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