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| Personal background |
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I am a typical drop out, being trained in psychology, my attention crossed the
fields of sociology, anthropology, public health, statistics and even
psychology. I have made a soft landing as the sysadmin of the Artificial
Intelligence department of Groningen University (which is located in the northern
part of the Netherlands).
Being born in 1969, I am currently 32 years, but that is likely to increase as
time goes by. I am married to Laura and have a very sweet 3 year old daughter who insists
on being called Eva.
More background is on my homepage at www.ronaldzwaagstra.com |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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As I happen to have an extreme inclination to wonder about what we are doing
here, I presume the rest of the universe might too. I have no doubts that
extraterrestrial life exists since the universe is quite big. Presumably some
of that life is in some way intelligent, so I tend to place my bet on the existence
of ET. However, human life is probably on example of intelligent life on earth,
dinosaur life is another, and all in all earth has quite a history of intelligent
life on it. Until about a century ago that life did not generate radio pulses that
can be detected from outer space. ET may not be smart enough yet to phone us, he
also may have become too smart to generate any more of the noise we are
looking for. As radio signals take a while to get here, we are basically looking
for an ET with our own intelligence, means of communications, and technological
advancement at the appropiate stage of development. There may not have been
such an ET at the right time.
If ET is there, and he is looking, he might decide to show his intelligence
by hiding from us.
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