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| Personal background |
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| Hi! I'm an italian journalist. I graduated in Latin and Ancient Greek in 1998 and I spent one month in Berkeley in 1997 to study for my final dissertation at University (Frogs in ancient literature! Yeah, just what you are reading: frogs!). I didn't know about Seti at that time and my field of studies was completely different. Then I began reading about Einstein and his work; I spent a lot of nights on those books (well, I never studied maths or astronomy very well at school...);later I found out a lot of writings about the matter and started buying a good deal of stuff. So I found Seti, too, wandering on the Web a couple of years ago. It's difficult to explain people what it is, if they never heard of it, but I've just formed a group. I e-mailed my sister to make her join in and I tried to tell her how the project works. Her answer was simple and a little worried for my health: "I'didn't understand anything. Can you explain it again? By the way, are you ok?". Now she's one of the members of my group. My hope is not to receive ET signals, but only to help analyzing a small part of the waves. But the Galaxy is so wide and the Universe even more. Well, who knows where the frog jumps? |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think extraterrestrial life exists. Our anthropocentric vision has influenced us for such a long time that I'm sure we must now be free from it, if we want to proceed in our culture.
I don't know if or when humans will discover it, but no discovery is without risks. If Colombo had chosen to stay at home by the fireplace petting his dog instead of risking his life on the sea, he hadn't found America. Risks are part of any mission or exploration, even if we do it by a radio-telescope... Risks for culture, risks of bad reactions, risks of a bad use of the discovery itself. Galileo was declared guilty for his studies and any new idea or discovery could be not well accepted by some. But as Dante Alighieri's Ulisses says in the "Divine Comedy": "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza", or - in my worst translation into English - : "You weren't made to live like beasts, but to search virtue and knowledge". That's why I run Seti@home. |
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