Profile: tank tulnukaleidja

Personal background
i'm a student at tartu university, the best and biggest in my country, estonia. i try to limit my studies as little as possible, and during the 7 years at the university, i have studied physics, archaeology and psychology. you could say i'm interested with practically EVERYTHING. i'd even study poetry or economics if i had the time. i work as a technical writer at a medium-sized software company, to earn my living. although my interests are so wide, i am particularily interested in physics, astronomy, sci-fi and the like. i think that people bound themselves too much with labelling things, and not with the important issues. who cares, if it's physics, chemistry or psychology. the important thing is what it's about. i think there is a higher level of understanding unifying EVERY form of science (and not only science). that's what i am after.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
i run seti@home on my office computer. mainly because it's a waste of resources to let it stand idle all night. why not let it do something useful then. i don't think the program is a waste of time, unless we discover something. surely it has scientific value even if the result is negative.

do i think that ET exists? i really don't know. i can speculate about the probabilities etc, but for sure - no, i don't know. that's the strength of science - we don't speculate. we PROVE. until that has been done, all options are best left open.

i don't think that an ET civilisation has necessarily to be a supercivilisation, with enormous resources and allpowerful wisdom, and that they will show themselves only when we are ready for it. that seems to be the opinion of a lot of people here. why? they could be just like us. or they could even be barbarians, when compared to us. they could be ANYTHING. so keep looking :)
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