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| Personal background |
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When I was 7, I went for the
first time with my father to the cinema ALONE. A guy's thing. We saw an
old SciFi movie, Dr. Who and the Daleks. I falled in love to that
little robots and to the Science Fiction, that was an unforgettable evening for
me and I still remember every moment 25 years later.
Some months after that I saw Star Wars, and the certainity that there's
more intelligent life outside this planet borned in my mind.
As most of kids in Argentina in
the 80's decade I grew up trying to understand 2001, a Space Oddisey,
reading Asimov's and Clarke's novels, and watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sometimes I'm really thankfull to be born in the television and internet era. I believe a century ago I where completely unable to get the knowledge I handle now.
Later I became a multimedial
designer, and space, extra-terrestial life forms, space ships, etc, where a
constant in my life and my profession. I can say that the Daleks, Lord Vader and the Enterprise forged my vocation. I guess is obvious now why I'm here. May be, hided under several layers of life and experience there's still a 7 years old kid, fascinated with a movie, with his father, trying to imagine what it would be like to be there, in space, talking with an alien =) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I knew about the SETI
program through the news, some years ago, I knew already what the Arecibo readio
telescope are, and lauged a lot every time it appears on a movie as another
thing (an evil radar in a unknown island, an alien device and so on).
Then I read Contact, my
intuition said that the SETI program's troubles in the book could be
pretty accurate and since then I was looked forward to help in some way. Some
years later I found the SETI@Home project, I founded thanks to my boss,
wich was an astronomy fan, and a SciFi geek, like me. As soon as I got the soft
I runned it non stop untill today, is my way to contribute to the cause.
We'll success? Yes, I think we
will, I don't think we'll listen to a signal pointed to the earth ad hoc, my
guess is we'll find a signal in time by pure luck or as an side effect of
another research, THEN arecibo will focus the area and everyone will ask
themselves "how could we miss that spot?!"
I guess we could accelerate the
proces by sending our own signal, but with a very basic information, after all
is like to leave a message in an answering machine, you wont say "hello
this is the human race speaking, our DNA is CTAGAATATCCGA...." it could be
a way to freak out our neighbors, I guess the best message we can send is just a
potent "Hello, we're here, is there any friend to have a nice chat?".Â
After all curiosity make the world move. |
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