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Personal background
From Finland, 31 years of age. Been interested in space for as long as I can remember. Consider spcae "a hobby", as I spend a lot of time reading about it :) Would have become an astronomer, but the maths... ;)
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Does extra terrestrial life exist? Hard to say... I have located my philosophy to be an agnostic one, so that fits :) But I do think that it is worth trying to find et life.

The main benefit of finding et life would be just to know that it is there. That in itself is a reason enough to try to find it, as it is withing limits of possibilities that et life exists, and that it exists in a form that we actually can find.

The dangers... Well, I assume that finding et life might be a blow to some more religious people. But I don't believe in et life taking over the world, as fruitful as that concept has been in SciFi. After all, the distances are too huge to cross. If our Sun was the size of a trouser button, the next star would be about 200 km away. But of course, imagination is limited, even if some people claim the opposite :)

Transmitting a beacon. Why not? What should it send? Something that indicates that it is not random. A pattern. That life here is carbon based... Well, basically the same things that are traveling the space with Pioneer 10 & 11.

Why do I run SETI@home? I want to know...
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