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Hi, I am Hans Egtberts, living in the Netherlands. I'm 41 years old (or young) and - due to a car accident - temporarily disabled. I used to work as a management consultant for a firm called ARCUS. Lying in bed I was brouwsing through the internet and foud this project SETI@home: a very good initiative, not only because of the intention to find extraterrestrial life but also as a project where people from all nations can cooperate.
Since September 11 2001 I think only working as a global community together can solve problems and prevent war. Every well-thinking human should find someone with another culture and background, from a totally different ethnic group, and work together in projects. I was working as a guest professor in the People's Republic of China and have learned a lot about Chinese culture. It helps me understand why things that are so obvious to us can be so 'strange' in other cultures. And I am convinced that, when we find ET-life, it will take a lot of time to understand other life-forms: as we now have already have so much difficulty to understand eachother!
I think it would be a very good initiative to open a possibility, through this project, to communicate between people from different countries. For example a 'community chat' or something like that. I would be pleased to help the SETI@home-people to implement it. So that all these 3.5 million people can communicatie!
I hereby want to pay my respects to all the people that are killed and wounded - physically or mentally - in the useless attack on September 11 2001 and all other people that are killed or wounded by terrorism, war and violence every day.
Kind regards,
Hans Egtberts (The Netherlands). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI is, in my opinion, a very good initiative of Berkeley University. We should be open-minded about everything that we cannot see or hear immedeately: we as a human race are perhaps not the only intelligent life form, I cannot find any reason to think otherwise. So searching for other life-forms is - given the opportunity we already have - a very good initiative. The SETI@home-project has my full support, because we can all contribute to this search by 'giving' some computer-time: it would otherwise be waisted! So let's use it for this purpose. Once I am back at the office (and that can take some months) all our computers (about 10) will run SETI@home to contribute even more.
I think we should also send signals to other civilizations: perhaps a more faster communication channel can be found in this way. First of all we should send information about the way we are able to communicatie with extraterrestrial life. But we should also send information about our world - even when this information is not all positive - and the way we live: cultures, religions, ways of government etc.
I think this project should continue as long as possible. Also because only a limited period of time is covered by measurements: what's two years in intergallactic perspective? So let's try to continue: we have the computer power through the SETI@home-project! But as I already mentioned above the project can also be used as a communication channel between countries and cultures, so let's try to make this happen too.
Finding ETL (extraterrestrial life) can have lots of benefits: perhaps these civilizations have an answer to questions we still have, for example a cure for cancer, peacefull co-existance or technical questions. The dangers of finding ETL are more in the field of commerce, that is our own commercial tendency: using knowledge by only specified companies and not using information shared with all people in our world. I'm not afraid of an extraterrestrial invasion or such things: that's our own mind that tells us this. |
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