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| Personal background |
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Portuguese, born in 1977.
Teaching Assistant at Department of Information Systems and Computer Science / IST. My PhD thesis concerns the area of Affective Computing, where I study the influence of emotions in reasoning.
I like:
- Star Trek
- Space Exploration
- Girls Exploration
- Chess
- Strategy Games
- Swimming
- Karate
- Spicy food
- Yogurts
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe in ET life. As Sagan explained, the percentage of space we occupy is extremely small and so is the time-span humans have lived. We have lived not more than a dot in a large space and a dot in a very long time-line. The probabilities of life emerging in a given planet during a few thousand years may be low, but with so much space and time as there is available in this universe, these probabilities increase immensely.
In other words, maybe not here, not close to us, not today, not in our life-time. But there is/was/will be a lot of life somewhere out there *for sure*.
I would be thrilled if humans would ever find life (even if "non-intelligent" life) in other planets. My greatest curiosity is about the way we would try to communicate, how they live, breathe, eat... What kind of sensory organs would they have: Eyes, ears, nose? How different would life on other planets would be from life on our planet. How would they be organized socially. What kind of technology or artifacts did they use. There may be some dangers, but I feel overwhelmed by curiosity and by the very idea of all the possible benefits.
I think SETI@home was a very intelligent idea and may one day come to a great discovery. I support everything that has to do with SETI in general. I wish I could play a more direct role in it.
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