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| Personal background |
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I am a computer scientist, currently doing my master's thesis
in Helsinki University of Technology, Product Modeling &
Realization Group.
My work pages:
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~has
My personal interests cover a list that is quite short -
Classical music (playing & listening),
Jogging, Hiking, going to gym, and
reading lots of books. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I believe, that there could be life somewhere other in the universe. That is
only a belief, though - there is no factual information.
Nowadays the computational methods we have to use (and even the foundations for the try) to find the life out there are quite undeveloped. Maybe some day, in the future, the technology allows us to contact the extraterrestrial life,
instead of passively listening for some signal of intelligence (or shopping
TV channel).
Sociological and psychological effects could be drastic, if another civilisation
would try to contact us - perhaps that would lead to crisis. But if we are both
here sitting and listening each other's TV sendings, probably the effects will
not be so large. Depends on the quality of the discovery.
2. Maybe not - it could be found after 1 gigayears, and our civilisation would
then be quite different, if it even would exist - and whatever information we
send, it will be only a crude palimpsest of the humanity.
3. I am interested to help finding out, what kind of things they try to sell
to late night TV watchers in other galaxies. Actually, I am interested in
distributed computing, and this seems a good way to spend my unused processor time. |
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