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| Personal background |
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Age 41, resident of Helsinge, Denmark.
Employed as Business Intelligence (IT Professional) at SCALES A/S; the new ERP sherif in Copenhagen. I work with ERP systems, database integrations, business intelligence and OLAP reporting on SSAS.
Also self employed with small company engaged in several internet Projects.
I run the Seti@home/BOINC client a bit on and off, depending on my mood and my powerbill, using a Core i7 3960X and 2-4 ATI 6870 GPUs. I recently tested BOINC on my Alienware 18 laptop where it also runs decent, on a 780M SLI configuration. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Q & A :
>> 1a. Do you think extraterrestrial life exists?
Yes, I certainly do. Not the famous little green men from Mars, but more like the concept of such stories as "Contact".
>> 1b. If so, when and how will humans discover it?
Actually I don't believe we will discover such existence in the next 6-7 decades. We are simply not technologically advanced enough yet. But even though our current technology is not good enough, there IS a small chance (like winning the national lottery 100 times in a row) that we will discover intelligent life outside of our solar system. The chance itself is sufficient argument for searching in the first place...
>> 1c. What are the possible benefits and dangers of such a discovery?
Technological and sociological advancement are the greatest possible benefits. Provided the race we discover doesn't have a "Prime Directive" like in Star Trek :-) The human race has proven itself capable of producing massive technological advancements in a very short time. I believe we seriously lack a corresponding sociological advancement, preferably towards greater mutual understanding and the sharing of global natural resources.
>> 2. Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what
>> information should we send?
Yes - We should build a beacon. The human may not be ready for the massive cultural impact it will have on us, but as things are, they can hardly get any worse. Our social cultural development has stagnated. |
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