Profile: René Torenstra

Personal background
I am a musician-nerd, a rare combination of a professional artist and a professional programmer, switching between the two lines of work every few years to keep things interesting. My hobbies are also spread around this spectrum and my brain's hemispheres, ranging from chess to music and movies.

Any mail is appreciated, especially from far away places, and you can get more information on my homepage, which is always under construction ;)

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am convinced that extraterrestrial life exists, but I have my doubts whether we can find it using the current SETI-project. It can't hurt to try, though. I am also not sure if we want to find it at this point in time, but that's another matter.

Should we send a signal ourselves? I don't know - I have my doubts. See above. The idea comes to me that maybe somewhere in the area we are scanning there is an alien civilisation that scans for signals from other life, and there is a point where our mutual telescopes connect, but they don't see each other because they are both receiving, not transmitting. Pretty ironic.
Scotty, picking up the mouse of a 20th-century computer and talking into it. "Computer? Computer?"
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