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My name is Daniel Winterhalter, and I am a student at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. I am currently majoring in "Engineering Undecided" (a very broad field), although I am trying very hard to declare Mechanical Engineering my major. I am a trumpet player in the Michigan Marching Band and Michigan University Band. When given some free time, I love to spend it playing computer games, Card games, chatting with friends, and antiquing, among other things. Collections include, but are not limited to: Bottle Caps; Bugles and Trumpets; DIVX Movies; Glass Paperweights; Hardy Boys Books; History Books of the 1920’s and before; older Baseball Cards; Rock, Mineral and Fossil Samples; Star Trek Memorabilia; Tom Swift Books; and much more.
Me in a nutshell? I’m a Trumpet playing Trekkie who carries cards with him everywhere he goes. I’m prone to spontaneous poetry writing, incredible acts of procrastination, and the occasional dirty joke. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I definitely believe that there is life outside of this planet, and I think that we will actually discover it when we send our first expeditions to other star systems. I think that the benifits of such a discovery are immense, and could include everything from new food sources to medical benifits, but discovering new life could also be incredibly dangerous to those initial explorers' health, as there would be an entirely new realm of disease and organisms that would interact with earthbound life in any number of unpredictable ways.
I don't think humanity is actually ready to meet a new sentient species- I think we as a planet, as a species, aren't mature enough to master our fear of anyone who would be able to transport themselves to Earth.
I run SETI@home because I do hope that we someday discover extraterrestrial life, and can interact with it, but it also provides me a cool screen saver :-) |
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