Profile: Stefan Dabrowski

Personal background
I was staring up in the sky ever since I can remeber. Before I completed primary school my own library of titles from astronomy, cosmology, and astrophysics was occupying the whole shelf together with self made albums with pictures of astronauts, crafts, projects, and each step of cosmic era as we call it now, was documented there in every detail available to me. It was 40 years ago and in a far away country. I grew up on Lem, Clarke, Assimov, Vought, Herbert, just to name a few, but also on Zon, and Sagan. I won't list here movies, for it is way too long, but the primary one still remains the legendary 2001 Space Oddyssey, and later of course Carl's Contact.
My computing started when ZX-81 8-bit processor was around, through Commodore-64, then a legendary IBM PC8086, and all the subsequent self built and upgraded machines up to later high end of Silicone Graphics super machines like famous SGI O2, Octane, and Onyx2 Infinite Reality VR. I currently run a small network, of which 2 PC workstations (one Quad-Core, and one single processor) crunch numbers for SETI. In the process I became an engineering and IT professional, also fluent in many areas of computing and programing.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Seti for me always was a natural continuation of exploring. Through the Arecibo's radiotelescope ("el radar" LOL) we put out our ear to the universe, and listen.... The question that we used to ask when I was a small kid "Is anybody there", has grown up over the time into a "where are you guys?". As Carl Sagan said - if it were only us - it would be an awful waste of space. So to all of us on this tiny blue ball travelling in each four seconds a distance of a thousand kilometers - it is time for us to forget our petty differences. There is much greater task to do, we have to grow up from our crib if we are to survive and succeed. The technology is not withholding us anymore, as it used to be in the past millenia. If we fail now as a species... we will have only ourselves to blaim, our lack of vision, greed, our stupidity. The nature will never care if this once so promissing experiment would fall amoung its countless failures, or its successess. So what would it be?

On the other note it is nice to be here in a good company of people who feel the same way, dedicate their time and effort to help make a difference for the better future, for finding the answers, open the possibilities, for being curious as we humans should be. Best of luck for you all!

Greetings fellow Earthlings.
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