Profile: lucdm

Personal background
I live in Belgium in Western Europe, not far from the Dutch border. Born in 1957, I graduated in electronics and worked for various international companies as system administrator and technical engineer. I became self-employed as a professional system administrator some 10 years ago.

Computers still continue to fascinate me. I am currently very active running linux servers and learning as much as I can about that. Anything to do with electronics and music - either listening to it or playing myself on the keyboard - is a favorite occupation. My girl-friend gets top priority of course and since I can cook a decent meal, we get lots of opportunity to enjoy a good bottle of wine.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Although I got interested in space and technology at a very early age, Carl Sagan is the person that more than anyone else has kicked off my fascination with space.
Later, while watching "Close encounters of the third kind" I started to wonder how we could ever communicate with an alien species. The "star trek universal translator" needs to be invented, I guess.

I still get very upset with what we call "extraterestrial life". Why does life have to look like a human being? If nature had moved in a slightly different way on earth, we all might have 8 legs and a lizard's head or something similar. And why is it so difficult to accept that a lifeform does not necessarily need OUR human environmental needs like sunlight and oxygen to thrive? There are lots of creatures at the bottom of the sea that live in totally deadly conditions for humans! IF they had a big brain and intelligence (by our standards) then would they not qualify as an E.T. if we encountered it on some far-away place in space?

I hope to contribute to SETI's effort to answer the question that everyone asks: is there anything out there with the smarts to communicate? and if we pick up their signal, then at least we know they can build electronics and communications devices... Might be interesting to find out what else they managed to discover. We may have a billion years of catching up to do...

As a last suggestion, I have a need for information. I am sure the SETI team are very busy, but could they delegate the task of keeping the website interesting to us to someone with some more time on his/her hands? I would love to get more info about what SETI is doing, if the signals are interesting and so much more... That would make it much more fun and motivating to keep my computers crunching...
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