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| Personal background |
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| Just a ordinary working family father that are a little interested in computers and modern technology. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Why do you run SETI@home?
Well...
The idea of sharing spare computer time for a common good thing is rather appealing. Just maybe, working together like this will increase the understanding among people and make the world a little bit better place to live in.
Then off course there is the small chance that we actually find something out there. Wouldn't that be interesting....
Also when my computers don't do anything better they just as well can do this, or else the electricity they in any case use, would go to nothing.
2. What are your views about the project?
SETI@home is a wast undertaking. The chance of finding anything is slim, at the best. But if we don't try, well then we will never know, will we.
I think there is life "out there", the universe is just a far to big place for us to be alone in. Just think about it. If we say that the chance of life in a solar system is one in a billion then there would be 400 solar systems just in the Milkyway that would have life.... and then we have all the other galaxies :-)
I don't think the big question is if there is life out there, but is there intelligent life out there, and if there is (or was), what level of development are they in. If we find them the distance to them could mean that we just see the remnants off a civilisation that died ages ago. There is also the question, should we try to contact them, and if we should, how would we do that. At the level of development that we are in right now, contacting them would probably be impossible due to the time any means of contact would take. Well, I suppose that I probably don't have to concern myself with these questions, because probably I'm not around long enough to see it happen.
Now the project also have developed to cower other aspects off science, and I think that this is good. Then people that think that SETI is just to much SCIFI can devote there computers to other more graspable and nearby tasks that also needs to be solved.
3. Any suggestions?
Well....
Keep up the spirit and the good work and as some other intelligent people have said
"May the force be with you"
and
"Live long and prosper"
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