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Greetings everyone! :)
My name is Michael, though friends, family and even co-workers use to call me LazyWolf. I am from Hiddenhausen, a small village in Germany. Born in 1980, I am currently 24 years of age. Besides my interest in the SETI project I usually keep myself busy with my work for nature conservation or the administation of an online community that deals with the subject of Therianthropy. I also like to read a good book every once in a while and - of course true to my name - being lazy all weekend. ^_^
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The main reason for my participation in SETI@home is the simple fact that I believe in extraterrestrial life. I have no idea in what form it may exists, I have no clue in what distance it is to be found and I am not sure if I would recognize it as life with my human mind and senses. But still... life sure isn't limited to a tiny blue planet called Earth.
Now why am I purposefully looking for extraterrestrial life? Well, I am a curious being, I like to play the game looking for the right answer. There have always been questions to fuel our discoverers. Their journey not always was a successful one... Some never found the answer they were looking for, others found a truth they hadn't anticipated. But still they made their experiences, they collected data and the tale of their ventures is knowledge others could make use of.
SETI was born from the idea, that we may could prove the existence of alien civilisations by detecting any kind of signal those aliens may broadcast. Up to now, even while working for several years, SETI was unable to present any proof for extraterristrial life. So has SETI failed? From my point of view I would vote "No!". SETI hasn't found aliens yet, but still the project moved something - within science, within the society, within the mind of some people when they look up to the sky. Technology and data evaluation have improved, a project like SETI@home was able to enlist the help of millions of people from all over the world. It is a wonderful sign of what man can archieve while working united for a common good.
Due to our technical disabilities SETI may only provide a teeny-weeny little chance of actually finding something out there, but I for one rather take this chance instead of sticking my head in the sand doing nothing. As Molière said: "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."
I will not stop looking up to the stars, asking myself if anyone or anything is up there as I will not stop helping SETI@home. This project, which refused to simply die after the government funding was cut off, is our main guarantor to keep asking the question that drives us all here: "Is anybody out there?!"
Don't stop asking until we get a satisfying reply. :) |
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