I have my residence in Belgium (Europe) and saw live on jan 9, 1971 ....
During my college time I was very fascinated by mathenmatics and physics
but in the end I ended up as computer scientist and since 1998 I work for Cisco Systems as a network/telecom engineer, a very challenging job.
I Do have a very lovely and understanding wive which I decided to mary in 1997.
But the best is saved for last ... I have 1 kid ( a boy) called arne .. and nothing compares to him ...
not even an ET.
regards .. Haakon
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Extraterrestrial life does exist no doubts .. when we will discover it ..
I am very convinced that we already have been discovered by others.... but that we ourselves are not mature enough yet to discover others...
perhaps because we are looking to lifeforms that are to close to ourselves..
but even god doesn't know how ET life will be like..
I find it bizar that in a world as small as ours we manage to screw up everything and fight eachother to the death for futile reasons
Transmitting a beacon is to my opinion not good / not bad
it is a kind of worst way to look for something, it's the only solution if you run out of 'smart' solutions. But it could be worth the time and energy spend.
what info we should sent? .. anything that reflects the level of intelligence we reached.
I run SETI at home as I do like to add value to this project.
(and CPU cycles as well ;-) )
Perhaps I also hope that when we find ET life or when they find us.
perhaps they could lead us by example to worldwide peace and understanding.
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.
