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| Personal background |
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| Helping to try and keep the weather machine on track, as an informatics engineer, I'm responsible for the information processing at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. I'm living near Brussels, one of the most multi-cultural capitals which makes it just the more interresting and surprising. The fact that I'm an atheist, and that there are no pre-fab answers to the questions of life-and-death, morality and the meaning of existance, I'm constantly looking for challenges and confirmations, which brings me to the topic of SETI... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Humankind is doomed. No matter if it's the natural death of our sun in 2 billion years, a major natural disaster in a few centuries, or the actions of a lunatic sleeping next to the big red button next year, we are doomed. The only escape is up. We need to get off this little rock of ours, drifting at the border of nowhere. We are obliged to ourselves to make the existance of the human race, and earth's nature in a whole, meaningfull and to contribute our culture, history, knowledge and experience to the universe. Just to make a difference. Else, what was is all for? Why did we exists if we're just being extinct without a trace, without a sign: "we were here".
Seti@Home is an opportunity for us all, to contribute to the first step into deep-space. We need find some proof of extraterrestial (intelligent) life somewhere else in the universe, to be able to focus, and set out the next goal. Sure, there may be some dangers out there, like on earth. That's nature. But if we sit put, and do nothing, we might as wel give it all up because... humankind on earth is doomed. |
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