Profile: Gobe

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I like rainy evenings, long walks, smooth jazz and... wait, wrong site... A lazy yet curious, modest yet happy, Guinness loving, cynically optimistic misanthrope.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Why? An interest in the whole distributed nature of the application. As for finding intelligent life, a sure sign of any intelligence would be to NOT contact us, given the good yet bad state we're in. I mean, would you if you were an ET, given that most experience of human culture may be TV signals... there's only so many re-runs of M.A.S.H. or Friends an ET could take ;)

Seriously, I believe in life out there, to put it simply the universe is too big with too many possibilities and variations for it to be otherwise, but then again... It's too self-conceited to think, as precious as we are, we're the only pebble dancing around a little lightbulb in the void. But I also believe that the vast distances involved will make contact a near zero possibility. It's the project itself and it's technical accomplishments, even more so since the move to BOINC. The SETI@Home project gets better and better. Kudos to the team for the idea and the very nature of such a project.
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