Profile: freecitizen

Personal background
Hi,

I'm from Malaysia, middle aged, do engineering work for a living and build amplifiers as a hobby. I came to know about SETI through that famous documentary series, The Cosmos. Prior to that, I had watched another famous documentary titled, The Chariots Of The Gods. Both these documentaries fired my imagination during my youth. In the mid 90s while surfing the net I stumbled upon SETI website. Even then, there was already a project going on using volunteers idling PC time to process radio data. Needless to say, I participated in that program until I retired my old PC. So, here I am again.

I wish the SETI@home community good hunting. I am proud to be a member of this international community.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think it was in one of the episodes of Cosmos that the late Carl Sagan introduced the Drake Equation. I guess that is what primarily drives me to run SETI@home. However, I now do not believe that Equation alone is sufficient to predict if SETI@home will succeed in my life time or even in the lifetime of my children. But still, we must persist and not let up as one may not know when we will hit the jackpot.

I my view, I believe the project deserves state support. This is difficult because many nations still cling on to monotheist religions. The laws in some countries even have religious overtones. It will take time for the human civilization to understand our place in this vast universe and perhaps some answers to God. I think it is great that the University of California @ Berkeley is supporting this worthy cause. It will be even better if other institutions also join into the effort.
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