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Hi all, my name is Marc. I'm 25 and living in Stuttgart, Germany.
At the moment I'm studying Geography and English at the University of Stuttgart.
I'm a great fan of Seti@home. I have it running since about 3 years now, at first at home when I lived still with my parents and now here in our "living community" where sometimes extra-terrestrial species are hanging out already. They're here!
(Nah, just joking... But we all underestimate the mutative powers of certain substances sometimes, don't we ? ;-))
At the the University there's a kind of zero-acceptance politics for Seti@Home in almost all computer-pools - no matter what institute - going on, which I just can't understand. Almost all machines are running 24/7 most of the time just partly busied with surfing students, even overnight, just like that...
I like watching the stars from our balcony. For this occupation I use WinStars (http://winstars.free.fr), a neat little freeware program. You can also display the WU your computer is working on. For hobbies I like going for a nice city downhill or cruise ride on my longboard, playing Ultimate frisbee with the local Ultimate team, the "7 Schwaben" (www.die7schwaben.de) or playing bass in my rock band (www.strange-in-stereo.de). |
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I believe there's life somwhere out there, because the universe is that B I G, even if this may be the same reason we'll never find any of it...
Anyway, we can only augment or chances of finding E.T.L. if we take an active part, say sending out beacons and signals, so yes, let's do it!
Personally I think the Seti@home project is one of the reasons an idea like the WWW was invented and serves as a prime example for reasonable and effective use of this technology.
It is in perfect balance between number of participants, average connection speed of the international internet user and benefit of mankind, if you would kindly guess what I am trying to say...(?)
Generally the idea of people working together to reach a certain goal or synergism as a worldwide process could help mankind a lot, I guess. I don't want to imagine where mankind could be right now, if not all this megalomania and envy was going on. This leads to the question if we're ready to handle
a "contact" at all. I can understand people saying that if THEY're smart THEY're staying away from our scanners for the next couple of years. But that's a completely different discussion, although very interesting... |
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