I'm 30 years old and have been seti-ing for almost 4 years now. During that time I inspired some friends from the Bauhaus University in Weimar to help me and the community searching.
I studied Civil Engineering in Weimar/Germany and it was a wonderful time there. If you ever have the chance to visit this city take some time to get to know the spirit of this town.
After finishing my studies I was working at the Institut for Media Communication at the Fraunhofer Institute in St. Augustin near Bonn (the former capital of West-Germany) buildung a Web based platform for the exchange of media artists and programmers. A very exciting job.
Now I moved to Leipzig working at the Universitätsklinikum in the department of Informationmanagement as project manager for IT-infrastructure.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1.
I don't know if this life exist and I don't have such a strong feeling about that. BUT I'm trying to find something if there is something. If I wouldn't believe completely - I wouldn't type this text, because I would not know this URL ;-)
2.
Yes, we should send beacons in order to inform THEM who and what we are.
3.
I do run the client(s) to win a bootle of beer to sit back with my friends from the JEM'HADAR group and talk to the ET's. Seriously I didn't make any deeper thoughts about that but it's part of my view of life. It would be ignorant to say that we are alone.
I think SETI was the first project using the Net for distributed analysis in this form. This fact and that the community has a common goal is that what drives me to make my clients working where ever I will go to.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
