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We come in peace!
Me
I am born 1967. I am a professional computer scientist in software engineering, and the favourite of the girls. I am from Sweden, but live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
SETI@home - well at work actually
I been participating in SETI@home almost from the start. It all started when I wondering what kind of screen
save my collegue used.
Most recent read book:
flat and curved space-time
And before that:
Vectors, Tensors and the Basic Equations of Fluid Mechanics
And before that:
Self-Organization in Biological System.
And before that:
How the Leopard Changed its Spots - The Evolution of Complexity
And before that:
Laws of the Game - How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance
And before that:
The Cooperative Gene - How Mendels'Deamon Explains the Evolution of Complex beings
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Thougts about SETI@home:
I participate in SETI@home because I want to play
Alien vs Predator for real.
We should not send the aliens a signal if we find them - we need to take them with surprice in the first attack!
aliens might contribute to our needs to find new food sources. We have a 50% chance of being able to digest them - there genome might be right aligned, and then we still might be able to eat them, but we wont be able to digest them.
Thougts about creation of life:
Life is easy to create, however complex life is a
bit harder. Earth is belived to be about 4,5-5
billion years old, and not until after about 4 billion
years the first complex life forms arose. Complex
life is hard to create. Not until the last few
million years a true intelligent species arose, and
not until the last few decades this species became
cable of communicate outside its own habbitat (earth).
There is most like life out there, but not complex.
Probably a myriade of bacterias and viruses, but with
higher organismes these are probably very rare and spares
spread in universe, not to mention intelligent
life able to do extra planetary communication.
So on the probability to find an "intelligent" signal
we have the odds against use, but I don't want to
repeat the same misstake as the old Greek did, but
do as Galilelo: verify by experiment.
If you are among those that think the universe are
scattered with a myriad of intelligent life forms, I would
like to recommed you to read the fist chapter of Mark
Ridley's The Cooperative Gene. That might make you
change your mind about it.
So, I am sorry to say it guys, but Carl Sagan was wrong.
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