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Well, I started to participate in SETI about two years ago. Unfortunately I had to pause for a while and had only slow machines available. But times are changing;-)
OK, so something about me.
I'm from germany (somewhere near Heidelberg, which I think is the best known city in my area) and work in an IT department. Having done some technical work in the earlier days (Assembler and C programming) i changed via SAP consultance over to project management. As this is sometimes a more political job I satisfy my need for technical stuff in supporting SETI. I'm interested in any kind of distributed computing, but SETI is the one I go for. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) Well, yes I think extraterrestrial life exists. Basically it is a question of chances and SIZE. I think chances are quite good, that in a construct that big as the universe something similar to our planet exists. Regarding the huge dimensions of the universe in general and the milky way in particular I'm not sure whether we will (even if we discover ET) be able to make contact with whatever lifeform in the next few thousand years.
2) Since our civilisation uses radio transmission in daily business we are somewhat 'detectable' for other civilisations (assuming they have a SETI too). So as far as I am concerned the question is not 'should we' (because we already do) but the question is ' what should we send?'. I think, basic natures laws and mathematic formulars to show our state of development would be best as any written word will most likely not be understood...
3) It's fun and my computer is somewhat bored without SETI. The only suggestion: Try to get rid of the bandwidth problem...
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