Profile: Nino Dal Borgo

Personal background
I am born in 1958, happily married since 1985, with 2 kids (Stefano and Nicola).
I am living in Bellinzona, a small town in the italian speaking
part of Switzerland, which has 3 castels which have just been registered in the
UNESCO list of monuments belonging to the whole humanity.
My mother language is italian, but as many swiss I speak german, french and
english as well.
I am a freelance in the field of business organisation and IT consultant, and
work with many govt. agencies and private businesses.
My hobbies are reading, walking (helped by my 4 year old dog who would like to
go around at least 30 Km per day), music (I play piano, but it is better for
you not to hear), and social activities.
I am a SF fan since I was 14, and thus it is quite natural for me to think
that we are not alone, but in italian we have a thought: "better alone that
in bad company" (freely translated).
I use Internet on work only, and do not have a connection at home. My kids
(who are 12 and 9 year old) may look at TV 1 hour per day, otherwise they have
to deal with the real world, like playing soccer, camping with Boy Scouts,
doing sport, and so on.
I am a lover of slow food and hate McDonalds and the company.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I have joined the Seti project in December 2000, for many reasons. The first
is that I like very much and enjoy partecipating to a group effort, as I don't
believe very much in "single hero" (like in many movies), and thought it was
a worthwhile project in 2 ways: the reasearch in itself, and the idea of
having so many individuals/PCs around the world collaborating together through
Internet.
The second is that I believe (but can't prove) that ETs do exists, at least on
a statistical basis: in a so big universe, the idea that intelligent life has
evolved only on our planet does seem silly to me.
I don't believe that the Seti project has many chances to find evidence of
ET life, but neverless it is worth trying. The assumptions that should be true
for the Seti project to be successfull are too many: ETs should comunicate
with radio frequencies, exactly on the frequency range that can be received
and examinated by us, exactly in the sky sector which is investigated, exactly
in the same time we receive from that direction.
Before sending signals out in the big dark, I would think twice: many
civilisations have disappeared due to the "cultural gap". When a more
technically evolved cultur has met a less evolved one, the less evolved has
gone astray (like in south America). Also, I think that to reach the inter-
stellar travel (if it is possible) a civilisation should evolve far beyond the
level of "brutality" which is present on our planet; but this doesn't imply
that a ET form coming to visit us should be polite with us (there are many SF
books which examine various way how this could happen).
My hope is that 1) ET do exist, 2) we establish a communication with them and
3) all is well.
So let's go with step 1 and try with Seti.
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