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My name is Carl Axelius. I am 25 years old and I live in the IT Mecca of Sweden – Kista, just outside of Stockholm. I work as a systems administrator in a CAD/CAM company and have done so for the past 4½ years. My computer interest began when a fiend of mine (Big Mike) introduced me to the Internet many years ago. Since then this interest has grown.
I also enjoy power-lifting which Big Mike and I train but on separate locations. I also like sports cars. I own a BMW M3, which I use in the summer. I am thinking about getting another BMW for use in track races, which means that I might sell the M3 in ´03. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I read about SETI @ Home a couple of years ago in the Swedish science magazine “Illustrated Science†(http://www.illvet.com/) but I did not join until recently (Sep´02).
At first, I thought that I could help the project with a little processor time but after a while I found that crunching those WU´s is highly addictive -:) I now run a 266Mhz and an Athlon 1800 24/7 at home and I am thinking about getting a dual computer to run SETI on. I do not run SETI @ Home at work. I think I have been interested in the universe as far as I can remember. I watch Star Trek TNG, ENT, VOY, Babylon 5 and the Star Wars episodes. Channel 5 in Sweden used to air B5 but they stopped some time ago. The only solution to this problem was to buy the B5 episodes. So I now own all 5 seasons of B5 (it was expensive to but all ~51 tapes but I did it -:))
I wrote a short two-page essay on some of the aspects of the universe five years ago at an English class I attended at night school. The universe is so vast and I believe that there are other life forms out there. I am however sceptic to if we will ever make contact with another sentient life form. I base this on the fact that there are more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy and there are over one billion galaxies in the universe. I think the chance of actually making contact with another life form is very small. So why do I run SETI @ Home? The nswer is that I believe that it is better to do something than to do nothing. If we do nothing the chances are zero, if we do something the chances are better than zero. |
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