| Personal background |
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I've been a SETI@home participant since the year 2000 and moved over to the BOINC client because of the possibility of using my PC's processor for other proyects.
I'm originally from Chile but have lived in Buenos Aires-Argentina, Falkirk-Scotland, Nottingham-England, Madrid-Spain, Dublin-Ireland, Paris-France, Bilbao-Spain and now Carasa (Cantabria) Spain where I'm well settled. I read my first SF novel when I was 5 years old and are a big Star Trek fan. All this plus knowing so many different countries have led me to be 100% sure that we are all the same. What separate us is mainly language and a far second, cultural differences (which are overcomed by simply having an open mind).
My hobbies are computer games, trying to play the guitar, reading e-books in my cool Palm Tungsten-C and growing and planting native European trees just for the fun of seeing them grow. I'm married and have two boys which are just as fun to see grow as my trees. Although the trees don't give me so many shocks, and they don't grow so fast :-o . I'm also a member of Greenpeace (fantastic organization) and work in a Lotus Domino services company Domino+.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I heard about SETI@Home around 1999 and I joined at the beginning of 2000. To me it shows that some things can get a lot of people together working for a common goal which gives me hope when in other fronts we are killing each other. Maybe we are all wasting out time as ET may not get in touch with us via radio, but the idea of SETI@Home is so fantastic that is irresistible.
I do hope that we can choose more and more BOINC projects, but I have to admit if I have the slightest suspicion that this is used for anybody financial gain or military activity, I will not join the project, so I would recommend BOINC to specify how the resulting data from the project will be used. Public release would be the best (even if used by the two mentioned before).
If you want to use your processing power to predict climate change click here: The Greenpeace BOINC Team.
I joined Seti@Home because I most definitely think that extraterrestrial life exists but most likely it will be some bacteria living in the ice in Mars or in the moons of Jupiter. My own personal wish is that Jupiter's Europa will give us a few surprises (Maybe read too much Arthur C. Clarke). Intelligent life is another story though, but I reckon there's a few like us. For others that could get in touch, they'll probably wait until we have settled our differences first or that we can actually travel to the stars (Star Trek theory).
If intelligent ET is found I think it will unite human kind more than anything before, for dangers maybe strange illnesses from mars bacteria?
Should we beacon our position? Sure why not, I'm on the line that believes that if they can travel through space they won't be the shoot first ask questions later type (I like Picard more than Kirk). |
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