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My name is Fred Villijn. I live in Belgium.
I am 54, since 23 years (1980), I work for a U.S.-based company (Minneapolis) as gen. mangr.& responsible for clinical studies in Belgium.
(it's a.o., the leading pacemakermanufacturer worldwide).
I'm married, 2 children (twins). My hobby is chess. (modest, but not a bad amateur, 2010 elo).
I liked Steven Spielberg's film on E.T.
I like the seti-initiative. (for reasons you will perhaps dislike...)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1) I do not think extraterrestrial life exists.
I will not complicate things, but statistically chances of discovering a correlation between the observed electromagnetical (cosmic or other) signals and a supposed extraterrestrial civilization are close to zero.
This has to do with several factors; the most important being the probability of life originating anywhere, related to the number of planetary systems in the known universe.
2) Nevertheless, I support the idea of humans transmitting a "beacon" for others to find. (as even a genuine disbeliever has to admit that a statistical chance of 0,000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% is a chance).
If we send this information, we should do it in a binary form for obvious reasons. (E.T. has not necessarily 10 fingers, but will probably know the difference between 2 statuses - yes, no - cold, hot, - life,death-, etc...)
The content of the information is a very difficult question. Something about the ideas of Emmanuel Kant??
3) I run SETI@home for the reasons explained above. I have no suggestions on the program, as I think the used methods (Fourrieranalysis, ampl.& cordet, etc..) are correct.
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