Profile: Umberto

Personal background
I'm a sci-fi-literature fan since the age of 7 and it was mostly natural that I became an Aerospace engineer.

Unfortunately I didn't get past an internship in a space project for the German D2 Mission on the Shuttle, so I'm now in automotive business.

I'm still dreaming of being part in the development of big space project like a Sänger space transportation system or stuff like that.

And of course, if had 19.5 million dollars on my account, I'd get a loan of 500.000 bucks and buy me a ticket to the ISS. Unfortunately the dot on my account is far more left than it should be to let this dream come true.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I'm absolutely sure, that mankind is not alone. It's pure statistics, there are so many stars outside, few with planets, few may have the physics to develop intelligent life (nobody says it has to be bases on carbon, hydrogen and oxygen).

I'm thrilled when thinking about the first contact with an non-terrestial civilization. How could we communicate? Think how strange some of the habits of Asian folks are to a Western person (and vice versa!). How strange can a non-terrestial intelligence be?

This contact could be so rich of new information if we don't let the anxious and trigger happy take over.

I think earth is already sending so much information that it would be impossible to add a special signal beacon with special information (unfortunately most of the tv-programms emitted are not to earth's favour).

I'm running SETI@HOME, because I believe in the mission and I think that Internet became this great because everybody contributed somethin without asking in the first place what this contribution is good for. Keep going!
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