I'm Swedish. I work as a systems administrator at Chalmers University of Technology.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Everybody ought to read "Contact" by Carl Sagan. The novel is very different from the film, and also much better. The book constitutes an excellent argument in favor of SETI.
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