| Personal background |
By July 2006, I'm a 17-year-old Spanish student. I love computers, and I'm what you'd call an eternal-beta programmer. I've already written some (quite "stable") apps, and published two (HashSum and ADSVote) under the GPL.
I also like other fields of the Science (with capital S), so I'm an usual surfer at Wikipedia, an online wiki-based encyclopedia, where I've started some articles, just as "synthetic division" and "Spanish Senate". Why the article about the Spanish Senate? Because I also would like to be a politician.
As you can see, I've got a lot of projects: study at MIT, become the richest person in the world, rule the world... oops, you shouldn't know that. Now I'll have to kill you :P. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I run SETI@home because it's statistically impossible (for me, at least) that there is only one planet in the whole Universe (that's a lot of space, I can swear, and, if you don't believe me, ask the Hitchhiker's Guide) capable of supporting intelligent life.
There is, however, a problem with this SETI. If we receive a suitable ET signal today, it cannot be younger than 4 years (the closest star, Proxima Centauri, lies 4 light-years away from us), so think about receiving something from Sirius, Vega or even another galaxy such Andromeda... The ETs could have extincted in the time it took to the EM wave to travel.
It's crystal clear that, if any civilization would like to expand further than its star system, it must discover how to travel (and/or transfer information) faster than light. BLASPHEMY! No, it isn't. There could be "methods" to do so (such as the Alcubierre drive), but we haven't developed them yet. A more advanced alien civilization, however, could have done it, and thus they won't be transmitting in normal EM waves when they can do in one of those "methods". And we won't be able to detect those transmissions until we've mastered them.
Although, we cannot stop working because there is much to do. This SETI is the best we have, so let's process every single bit received, waiting for the ET greeting. |
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